“There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (via verbatim-et-litteratim)
June 2012
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“What about you? Are you the happiest and saddest right now that you’ve ever been?” “Of course I am.” “Why?” “Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.”
—Nicole Krauss (via troubled)
“To die, to sleep
No more, and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache…” —William Shakespeare (via killheji)
No more, and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache…” —William Shakespeare (via killheji)
“Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay. Love that overthrows empire. Love that binds two hearts together, come hellfire and brimstone. For sixpence a line, I could cause a riot in a nunnery. But now – I have lost my gift. It’s as if my quill is broken, as if the organ of my imagination has dried up, as if the proud tower of my genius has collapsed.”
—Jeffrey Eugenides (via troubled)
“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he’d learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
—Cassandra Clare (via troubled)
