"At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you; too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?"

— Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy and Midnight All Day (via multitasker)

"But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings."

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Tags: love lessons life

Take my hand and never let me go. 

(Source: kpcolfer, via katelizabeth)

Tags: love

No forevers

And when I looked at the picture, I had no idea which was you. And that shocked me. Because once upon a time, you were a huge part of my life. And you sure left lasting scars. But no one in the photo looked like anything close to what I remembered you by. And I wonder if we pass on the street, if we would just walk on by. You, the perpetrator. Me, the scarred. 

Tags: life love

"You think you can just show up and tell me how to live my life? You don’t even know what I’ve been through."

— Simba (via eletheowl)

Tags: truth life

"Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury."

Elizabeth Gilbert (Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage)

Tags: love

Happy Chinese New Year! <3

Happy Chinese New Year! <3

Tags: heart

If only everyone will accept this. 

If only everyone will accept this. 

(via drapetomania)

Tags: truth life love

(Source: -loner, via drapetomania)

"I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t."

— W. Somerset Maugham (The Painted Veil)

(Source: vashti, via hellobeauutiful)

Tags: life