"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."
Carson Mccullers (via midnightmare)
(Source: blua, via midnightmare)
"How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn’t they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?"
Don DeLillo (via black-wolves)
"Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to to find other people or to even know they’re alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of."
Rachel Naomi Remen (via venebelle)
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“And the crashes are heaven, for a sinner like me,
The arms of the ocean deliver me”
-Florence + the Machine, Never Let Me Go
"Everyone is convinced that the “thing” they’re searching for is in the future. But how many people have realized that “it” is actually in the past? I can’t even guess."
Ayumi Hamasaki, “Scar”
(Source: theravenwine)
