lovingly lonesome

2012-12-20

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Let me say right now for the record I’m still going to be here asking this world to dance, even if it keeps stepping on my holy feet. You, you stay here with me, ok?

— Andrea Gibson (via loveyourchaos)

(via loveyourchaos)

Source: word-welder

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But there are forces that don’t let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don’t own.

— Salvador Plascencia (The People of Paper)

(via carriemp)

Source: booklover

2012-07-14

There is a physical component to falling in love — the butterflies in your stomach, the roller coaster in your soul — then there’s an equal physical component to falling out of love. It feels like your lungs are sieves, so you can’t get enough air. Your insides freeze solid. Your heart becomes a tiny, bitter pearl, a chemical reaction to one irritating grain of truth.

— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home (via kaitmpayne)

(via kaitmpayne)

Source: bookmania