“If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you’ll give it all. And once you’ve lost yourself, haven’t you lost everything?”
- J. Garwood
"The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison."
- Daniel Quinn - Ishmael (via adistantrelative)
"Like a compass needle that always points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always."
- A Thousand Splendid Suns (via parasstaysdope)
"She had passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold."
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (via quoteablestuff)
Maika Maile (x)
(Source: yutchner)
"People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
- ― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
"And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are."
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via thatswhatthewatergaveus)
Out of the island
Into the highway
Past the places where you might have turned
You never did notice
But you still hide away
The anger of angels who won’t return
What does it take to be a superhero in my world. Make no mistake. These villains always get the girl.
I’ll be okay. Is that you want me to say? It’s called break-up cause it’s broken.
