“Because on some level, even though it never turns out to be true, and even though I should know better, I still expect life to be like the movies.”
—E. Lockhart, The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviours, Plus Techniques for Taming Them (via creatingaquietmind)
November 2011
“It is better to trust and take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in man.”
—Psalm 118:8
I think you could fall in love with anyone if you saw the parts of them that no one else gets to see. Like if you followed them around invisibly for a day and you saw them crying in their bed at night or singing to themselves as they make a sandwich or even just walking along the street and even if they were really weird and had no friends at school, I think after seeing them at their most vulnerable you wouldn’t be able to help falling in love with them.
“I keep thinking you already know. I keep thinking I’ve sent you letters that were only ever written in my mind.”
—I Wrote This For You: The Invisible Postal Service (via creatingaquietmind)
“More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn’t alone.”
—James Frey (via executions)
