"The Time Traveler’s Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger

I’m living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there’s a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.

Giacomo Casanova

One who makes no mistakes
makes nothing at all.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

Find someone who makes you feel drunk when you're sober.

Elizabeth Scott

I want to care but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired.

Emerson

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are.
We see them as we are.

"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov

...and then there were times when I knew how you felt and it was hell to know it.

Tupac

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened
...or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on!

John Gardner

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

Alan Watts

If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

rShowerThoughts

Instead of just looking up into the sky, you're actually gazing down into the infinite cosmic abyss, with only gravity holding you onto the surface of the earth.

Self advice

Stop saying it's okay when your soul's bleeding. Stop trying to dodge knives that always end up in the depths of your heart. Stop looking to the ceiling hoping that tears won't overflow. Stop taking people's shit. Walk away. Fuck them all.

"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.

"Detach from needing..." by Orin

Detach from needing to have things work out a certain way. The universe is perfect and there are no failures. Give yourself the gift of detaching from your worries and trust that everything is happening perfectly.

kenyaosuna

Just because I find you attractive doesn't mean I like you. You are appealing to my eyes, not my heart or mind. It is not that deep.

Caroline Forbes, TVD

I know you said to kill her with kindness
but can't I just kill her?

Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

e•ly•sian

adjective// a beautiful word

elysian is anything that connotes beauty, perfection, celestial divinity, bliss and overall paradise.
If you are overwhelmed by a mystical presence the word exudes, you are not mistaken, it is inspired by Ancient Greek Mythology. The Elysian Islands or Elysium is a conception of the afterlife reserved for the gods, the righteous and the heroic. It is a heavenly realm assigned for their indulgence and enjoyment of life to the highest degree of euphoria.

"Sonnet XVII" by Pablo Neruda

I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries
the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself,
and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose
from the earth lives dimly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you directly without problems or pride:
I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love,
except in this form in which I am not nor are you,
so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my dreams.

Michael Scott, The Office

Sometimes I start a sentence, and I don't even know
where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way.

Every heart
hides pain
--
fools hide it in their eyes
while the brilliant hide it in their smile.
Still, the pain shines through in the end.

Beau Taplin

Human beings
are made of water

we are not designed
to hold ourselves together

rather run freely
like oceans
like rivers.

I don't care if I fall in love with a devil,
as long as that devil will love me the way he loves hell.

"Shadowfever" by Karen Marie Moning

Some people bring out

the worst in you, others 

bring out the best, and then 

there are those remarkably 

rare, addictive ones who 

just bring out the most. 

Of everything. They make 

you feel so alive that you’d 

follow them straight into 

hell, just to keep 

getting your fix.

com•part•men•tal•ize

v.// to divide into sections or categories,   
      to put something in a place that is separate from other things;
      in psychology, it is seen as a defense mechanism meant to allow conflicting ideas or emotions to coexist
       within the "ideal" self

William Shakespeare

Never play with the feelings of others
because you may win the game,
but the risk is that
you will surely lose the person for a life time.

"Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" by Mary Elizabeth Frye

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.

I've found out that growing up means being honest.
About what I want. What I need. What I feel. Who I am.

Good things happen
to those who wait
------------------------
or those who are
willing to get up
and get shit done

Magaret Mitchell

My dear,
I don't give a damn.

"Empty Stage" by Franz Wright

I'm a ghost
that everyone can see.

I AM DONE WITH YOUR SHIT!

Example for a malaphor

I'll burn that bridge when I get to it.

"Caliban" by Penny Dreadful

I would seek you
even unto the maelstrom
of the blackest temptest
of the darkest night.