"Do Not Fall In Love With People Like Me" by Caitlyn Siehl

Do not fall in love
With people like me.
people like me
will love you so hard
that you turn into stone
into a statue where people
come to marvel at how long
it must have taken to carve
that faraway look into your eyes

Do not fall in love with people like me
we will take you to
museums and parks
and monuments
and kiss you in every beautiful
place so that you can
never go back to them
without tasting us
like blood in your mouth

Do not come any closer.
people like me
are bombs
when our time is up
we will splatter loss
all over your walls
in angry colors
that make you wish
your doorway never
learned our name

do not fall in love
with people like me.
with the lonely ones
we will forget our own names
if it means learning yours
we will make you think
hurricanes are gentle
that pain is a gift
you will get lost
in the desperation
in the longing for something
that is always reaching
but never able to hold

do not fall in love
with people like me.
we will destroy your
apartment
we will throw apologies at you
that shatter on the floor
and cut your feet

we will never learn
how to be soft

we will leave.
we always do.

"I Wrote This For You" by Iain Thomas

All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.

William Shakespeare

When I saw you
I fell in love, and
you smiled
because you knew

Don’t let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they’re bored and step on you when they’re done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

"Beauty is.." by Emma Watson

Beauty is not long hair, skinny legs, tanned skin or perfect teeth. Believe me. Beauty is the face of who cried and now smiles, beauty is the scar on your knee since you fell when you were a kid, beauty is the circles when love doesn’t let you sleep, beauty is the expression on the face when the alarm rings in the morning, it’s the melted makeup when you have a shower, it’s the laughter when you make a joke you’re the only one who can understand, beauty is meeting his gaze and stopping understanding, beauty is your gaze when you see him, it’s when you cry for all you paranoias, beauty is the lines marked by time. Beauty is what we feel in the inside which also shows outside us. Beauty is the marks the life leaves on us, all the kicks and the caresses the memories leave us. Beauty is letting yourself live.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

And in the end, we were all just humans... drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Jeremy Radin

Let me sleep, finally,
in the arms
of something beautiful.
Let me say my last
fuck yous
with honey in my mouth.

"Undress me" by Michael Faudet

All that you write,
         you know
         it's not right
         you move me
         with written suggestion.
I know it's absurd,
         to be undressed
         by a word,
         write me more
         write me more—
         make me yours.
   

African Proverb

If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.

You are so used to your features, you don’t know how beautiful you look to a stranger.

Kanye West

Someone will always be prettier.
Someone will always be smarter.
Someone will always be younger.
But they will never be you.

"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.