They say all's well that ends well, but I'm in a new Hell
Every time you double-cross my mind
Taylor Swift, 'All too well'
You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath.
Taylor Swift, 'All too well'
"We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain."
Charles Bukowski
“You have a lot in common with the moon; its light & its beauty, & its distance from me.”
Nizar Qabbani
“You became like coffee, in the deliciousness, and the bitterness, and the addiction.”
Mahmoud Darwish
When Tahseen Anam said,
" And we fall for those who are not even there to hold us"
I felt it through and through.
I'd rather sit in silence with you than have thousands of conversations with other people.
"Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?"
Rudy Francisco
"I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim."
~ Frida Kahlo
I may look okay but deep down I really need to recreate the scenes from my favourite books with someone.
"My blood is a miracle that, from my veins, crosses the air in my heart into yours."
"You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry."
~ Frida Kahlo
Can't agree more!
everyone is pretending and everyone knows that everyone is pretending
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.”
~ Frida Kahlo
The hopeless romantic urge to look at the moon and stars, forever.
People who get excited about sunrises, sunsets, a sky full of stars, the moon, deep connections and heart to heart conversations are my kind of people.
"Break my heart and you'll find yourself inside."
Unknown
"People empty me. I have to get away to refill."
Charles Bukowski
"We were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly."
Vladimir Nabokov
"وطن المرء ليس مكان ولادته و لكنه المكان/الذي تنتهي فيه كل محاولاته للهروب"
"Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease."
“The other day, lying in bed, I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind”
~Rodger Kamenetz
To have someone who understands your mind and matches your vibe is a whole different level of intimacy.
"I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art— write or draw or build or sing or live, as only you can."
Neil Gaiman
#relatable
I used to believe I'm like Elizabeth Bennet because of her intelligence, love of reading and independent nature. Now I know I'm actually like her because I laugh in inappropriate social situations and I can't keep my snarky comments to myself when someone is acting like a dick
Hand kissing and forehead kissing are acts of the most sacred, high-romance and I think we need to revive these.
Deep down, inside every reader girl, is an insatiable hunger to be loved as fictional men love their girls and it increases evermore as they keep on reading.
Surviving life nowadays only with books, coffee and tons of daydreaming about my own fictional world.
It's so out of the way how a single person is missing for you and the whole world feels empty.