a composition notebook filled with quotes volume ii

You scare people because you are whole all by yourself. – Unknown

Patience, Dear Heart. – Unknown

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped that party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute, could have changed everything and everyone. – Unknown

You are softer than before they came, you have been loved. – Unknown

Courage, Dear Heart. – Unknown

You are the person I’ll never stop looking for in a crowded place. – Unknown

All good things are wild and free. – Unknown

Thank you for seeing museums in me where I saw empty hallways. – Unknown

How long is forever? Sometimes just one second. – Unknown

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. – Unknown

We’re all one choice away from a completely different life. – Unknown

May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace. – Unknown

I prevailed when all odds were stacked against me and within that is my glory. – Unknown

I had to forgive a person who wasn’t even sorry, that’s real strength. – Unknown

It may have just been a moment for you, but it changed every single one that followed for me. – Unknown

Did you say it? I love you, I don’t ever want to live without you. You changed my life. Did you say it? Make a plan, set a goal, work toward it, but every now and then, look around, drink it in, cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow. – Grey’s Anatomy

The ties that bind us are sometimes impossible to explain. They connect us even after it seems like the ties should be broken. Some bonds defy distance and time and logic; because some ties are simply meant to be. – Unknown

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. if I quit however, it will last forever. – Unknown

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been, maybe they always will be. Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other and maybe we’ve been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. – Unknown

I would love to tell you that everything will work out for us, but I promise to do all I can to make sure that it does. But if we never meet again and this is truly goodbye, I know we will see each other again in another life. We will find each other again and maybe the stars will have changed, and we will not only love each other in that time, but for all the times that we’ve had before. – Unknown

I suddenly realized it – the way to get over you isn’t by hooking up with some random guy or pretending like we didn’t happen. You and I loved each other, and then you broke my heart. I’ve been doing everything possible not to face that fact. I’m gonna kiss somebody someday and when I do, it’ll be for me. Goodbye, Chuck. I’m going home. – Gossip Girl

You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. – Unknown

Go to the garden when you need to remember that everything is love. – Unknown

The ocean, in my experience, is the only vessel big enough to absorb human grief. – Elizabeth Gilbert

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. – Unknown

The scene is a held breath, a moment of stillness. – Unkown

And now that I’ve met you, I couldn’t think of anything more tragic than having never met you at all. – Unknown

Make it make sense. – Unknown

Make it enough. – Unknown

When I go to sleep, I dream of you inside of me. – Unknown

I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, but if every one of them had to happen to make sure I was right here, right now to meet you then I forgive myself for them all. – Unknown

I hadn’t known that light could be a feeling and a sound could be a color and a kiss could be both a question and an answer. And that happiness could be the ocean, or a person, or this moment or something else entirely. – Unknown

Some women are lost in the fire, some women are built for it. – Unknown

I’d choose you in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you. – Unknown

Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed, maybe they just run free until they can find someone just as wild to run with them. – Unknown

Sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage, just literally twenty seconds of embarassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it. – Unknown

July is dressed up and playing her tune. – Unknown

I am softest when I am with you. – Unknown

Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything, maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place. – Unknown

But the most exciting, challenging, and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you, you love, well that’s wonderful. – Unknown

I am the love of my life. – Unknown.

For sometimes knowing nothing lasts forever is the only way that we can learn to fall in love with all the moments, and all the people that are meant to take our breath away. – Unknown

Beyond the fence, the forest stood spectrally in the moonlight and through that dim star, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to the one’s very heart, its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life. – Unknown

He was my north, south, my east, and my west. My working week and Sunday rest. My moon, my midnight, my talk, my song. I thought that love would last forever; I was wrong. – Unknown

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one. Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun. Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good. – Unknown

I regret complaining about this heart and all its breaking. It was beauty we were making. – Unknown

You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t find yourself in. You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t love yourself in. – Unknown

Find yourself, then come find me. – Unknown

Just know that I’m thinking about you, and I miss you, and I’m still sleeping on your shoulder when I close my eyes at night. – Carrie Bradshaw

And after that, however long all that may be, you’ll go somewhere new. And you’ll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade. – Unknown

You’re in a car with a beautiful boy and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store or swallowed pills or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. – Unknown

I feel like I’d only imagined reciprocity. Now imagine being thrown from a cliff. No, I wasn’t on the cliff. I was still in my car telling myself it was gonna be fine and to take deep breaths. I took the breaths and I carried on. I kept up a peculiar friendship with him because I couldn’t imagine keeping up my life without him. I struggled to master myself and my emotions. I wasn’t always successful. Now, it doesn’t even matter. – Unknown

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that god damn mountain. – Unknown

A million waves in the ocean crash at once to make you smile. – Unknown

The only things that have ever made me strong were the moments I was courageous enough to be vulnerable. – Unknown

Remember that you were art long before he came to admire you, and you’ll continue to be art even when he’s gone. – Unknown

When that thing is gone, that’s when you realize just how much you loved it, how wrong you’ve been, and just how much it meant to you. – Unknown

I don’t want to lose you, his voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. But you don’t want to keep me either, do you? To that, he had no response. – Unknown

Nobody really knows what they’re doing and there’s two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it. – Unknown

One day I’ll meet the world. Me and her will walk to the end of the earth and jump. We’ll laugh as we fall and when the wind slicing through our hair grows hands, it will hold us there, exactly where we are to be. – Unknown

I will meet you one day and we will walk on top of our tongues until our feet grow tired of conversation. We’ll simply study the stretches of our skin then. One day, we will realize, that me and you are both so beautiful. – Unknown

Don’t say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one. I am so utterly alone, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and the ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you. – Unknown

Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future. – Unknown

I was quiet, but I was not blind. – Unknown

Power is being told you are not loved and not being destroyed by it. – Unknown

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hands of man. – Unknown

I didn’t believe in ghosts or the devil until I lost you, but continued to feel you. – Unknown

I don’t pay attention to the world ending, it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning. – Unknown

I always looked for a little bit of you in all of my future friends. – Unknown

I think when it’s all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It’s like a kaleidoscope of memories; it just all comes back. But he never does. I think part of me knew that the second I saw him that this would happen. It’s not really anything he said, or anything he did – it was the feeling that came along with it. Crazy thing is, I don’t know if I’m ever going to feel that way again. But I don’t know if I should. I knew his world moved too fast and burned too bright, but I just thought, how can the devil be pulling you toward someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you? Maybe he knew that when he saw me. I guess I just lost my balance. I think that the worst part of it all wasn’t losing him. It was losing me. I don’t know if you know who you are until you lose who you are. – Unknown

Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkable 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. – Unknown

Thank you for seeing gardens within me where I saw cemeteries. – Unknown

I think if you lifted my heart to your ear, you could probably hear the ocean. – Unknown

We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day. – Unknown

When I hit the rock bottom that exists after rock bottom and no rope or hand appeared, I wondered what if nothing wants me because I do not want me. I am both the poison and the antidote. – Unknown

You wait in hopes that new love can take the place of the old – which it can. But that doesn’t mean you will ever stop loving each other. Some people will love each other until the day they die, spending the majority of their lives apart. And so is the darker side of love. – Unknown

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimagineable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe. – Unknown

I know you’re so lonely, you can’t stand it. The kind of lonely that has teeth. A lone wolf howling at the moon. There is a savagery to what you feel. It eats you up inside. – Unknown

There are a few things in life so beautiful they hurt: swimming in the ocean while it rains, reading alone in empty libraries, the sea of stars that appear when you’re miles away from the neon lights of the city, bars after 2 am, walking in the wilderness, all the phases of the moon, the things we do not know about the universe, and you. – Unknown

You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you don’t even have a name for. – Unknown

There’s so much more to life than finding someone who will want you or being sad over someone who doesn’t. There’s a lot of wonderful time to be spent discovering yourself without hoping someone will fall in love with you along the way, and it doesn’t have to be painful or empty. You need to fill yourself up with love. Not anyone else. Become a whole being on your own. Go on adventures, fall asleep in the woods with friends, wander around the city at night, sit in a coffee shop on your own, write on bathroom stalls, leave notes in library books, dress up for yourself, give to others, smile a lot. Do all things with love, but don’t romanticize love like you can’t survive without it. Live for yourself and be happy on your own. It isn’t any less beautiful, I promise. – Unknown

THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN BEGIN TYPING NEXT TIME.

You are a match for your mountain. – Unknown

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they are really just talking to themselves in the past. – Unknown

It’s been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. – Unknown

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our life, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. – Marianne Williamson

We were together, I forgot the rest. – Walt Whitman

When I remember you, I dance. Thank you for your wonder. – Unknown

You, he said, are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain. – Unknown

It’s a bad day, not a bad life. – Unknown

Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore. – Cheryl Strayed

I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk. – Unknown

The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong, and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes. – Elizabeth Gilbert

The wound is where the light gets in. – Unknown

I would swallow the sun and kiss it straight into your mouth if it meant you’d be warm again. I would bury green gardens deep inside your heart if it meant you would blossom there. I would pull myself apart, jagged bone and soft skin, if it meant I could find the right pieces to put you back together again. – Unknown

You have to believe in the version of you that is laughing in bed on a Sunday morning with the person they love twenty years from now, because you deserve that future. It is waiting for you. Choose it. – Unknown

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe, I was strong, I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. – Cheryl Strayed

I wish I had done everything on earth with you. – Unknown

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies – I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. – Unknown

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. – Unknown

You’re not going to want to hear this – but I’ll say it anyway; it’s the sad days, the long ones that feel like they’ll never end, that reveal the person buried beneath all that charade. It’s the sorrow that shapes us, the heartache, and how we respond. We are created by what we endure. – Unknown

After a while, you realize the only special thing about someone was the fact that you loved them. – Unknown

My fear cemented my feet. – Unknown

It was starting to feel like everything that was going to happen to me had already happened. – Unknown

The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs, the hours writing in your journal, the long meandering walks, the hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and god and whether you should shave under your arms or not, these things are your becoming. – Cheryl Strayed

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. – Cheryl Strayed

The unspoken isn’t unfelt. – Unknown

No is a complete sentence. It does not require justification or explanation. – Unknown

I know now (too little too late, or better late than never) that what we had was real and rare and special, and the way that it felt to kiss you is the way I always want to feel. Just know that I’m thinking about you, and I miss you, and I’m still sleeping on your shoulder when I close my eyes at night. – Carry Bradshaw

Write hard and clear about what hurts. – Unknown

As you are. You are happening right now. Right at this moment. And your happening is beautiful. The thing that both keeps me alive and brings me to my knees. You don’t even know how breathtaking you are. As you are, says the universe through tears. – Unknown

Real love doesn’t hurt, but the imitation of it does. – Unknown

I fell in love with the way you touched me without using your hands. – Unknown

Who broke your heart? Someone necessary. – Unknown

Expect nothing. Appreciate everything. – Unknown

I’ve realized a lot of people are at war with themselves, but they’ll battle themselves vicariously through you. – Unknown

Don’t rush, it takes time returning to yourself. – Unknown

You know what you’d dream it’d be like? It’s better than that. – Unknown

It may have just been a moment for you, but it changed every single one that followed for me. – Unknown

How wild it was, to let it be. – Cheryl Strayed

The world will ask you who you are and if you don’t know, the world will tell you. – Unknown

I think we all have certain prisons within us. – Unknown

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. – Unknown

There are decades where nothing happens and then there are weeks where decades happen. – Unknown

You were salt hiding in a bag labeled sugar. – Unknown

There are some things that you can’t understand yet. Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding. It’s good you’ve worked hard to resolve childhood issues while in your twenties, but understand that what you resolve will need to be resolved again. And again. You will come to know things that can only be known with wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of these things will have to do with forgiveness. – Unknown

You let time pass, that’s the cure. You survive the days. You float like a rabid ghost through the weeks. You cry and wallow and lament and scratch your way back up through the months. And then one day you find yourself alone on a bench in the sun and you close your eyes and lean your head back and you realize you’re okay. – Unknown

You don’t deserve a lukewarm love. – Unknown

I believe the misery there brought forth a certain flower that wouldn’t have grown anywhere else. – Unknown

Tell me who you spend time with and I will tell you who you are. – Unknown

Sometimes I wake up and remind myself that there is nothing wrong with me. I have patterns to unlearn, new behaviors to embody, and wounds to heal. But there is nothing wrong with the core of who I am. I am unlearning generations of harm and remembering love. It takes time. – Unknown

You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily; or have sharp edges; or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are real, you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand. – Unknown

I love unmade beds. I love when people are drunk and crying and cannot be anything but honest in that moment. I love the look in people’s eyes when they realize they are in love. I love the way people look when they first wake up and how they’ve forgotten their surroundings. I love the gasp people take when their favorite character dies. I love when people close their eyes and drift to somewhere in the clouds. I fall in love with people and their honest moments all the time. I fall in love with their breakdowns and their smeared make-up and their daydreams. Honesty is just too beautiful to ever put into words. – Unknown

When I ask you about your first love, I am always secretly hoping that you will say your own name. Now, wouldn’t that be beautiful – to above all else, have a heart that was proud of itself? – Unknown

Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room. – Cheryl Strayed

I started looking for good things and now I see good things all around me. – Unknown

I learned my final lesson, that life and death do not exist as enemies, and one does not begin where the other ends. They are shadows and shades which often mingle, and sometimes there is very little to distinguish between the two. – Unknown

I have to believe that there are moments of incorruptible beauty upon this earth. – Unknown

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. – Unknown

Have you ever stared at a painting so long that the colors blur and you can’t tell what you’re looking at anymore? There’s no form, face, or shape – just color, just swirls of paint? I think people are like that. When you really look at them, you stop seeing a perfect nose or straight teeth. You stop seeing the acne scar or the dimple in the chin. Those things start to blur, and suddenly you see them, the colors, the life inside of the shell, and beauty takes on a whole new meaning. – Unknown

If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person – then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all. – Unknown

You are the sky, everything else is the weather. – Unknown

You are not too old and it is not too late. – Unknown

Just because things could have been different doesn’t mean that they would’ve been better. – Unknown

Power is being told you are not loved and not being destroyed by it. – Unknown

You often feel tired not because you’ve done too much, but because you’ve done too little of what sparks a light in you. – Unknown

It’s only heavy for as long as you hold it. – Unknown

I’m homesick for arms that will never hold me again. – Unknown

I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being. – Unknown

Another moon we wait. – Unknown

It doesn’t make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don’t really see ourselves. We don’t watch ourselves sleeping in bed, curled up, and silent with chests rising and falling with our own rhythm. We don’t see ourselves reading a book, eyes fluttering and glowing. You don’t see yourself looking at someone with love and care inside your heart. There’s no mirror in your way when you’re laughing and smiling, and happiness is leaking out of you. You would know exactly how bright and beautiful you are if you saw yourself in the moments where you are truly yourself. – Unknown

Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest. Thick canopies of maple trees and sweet-scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, not matter how badly you are devestated. – Unknown

I don’t think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration. – Unknown

Does the sun ask itself, am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me? No, it burns and shines. Does the sun ask itself, what does the moon think of me? How does mars feel about me today? No, it burns. It shines. Does the sun ask itself, am I as big as other suns in other galaxies? No, it burns, it fucking burns. – Unknown

Nothing in nature blooms all year, be patience with yourself. – Unknown

What’s in you can never be taken away. – Unknown

You’ve been my turn-up and my church. – Lauren London

If you don’t feed something, it dies. – Unknown

You have no idea how boring everything was before I met you. – Unknown

All you have to do is something. – Unknown

I won’t miss waiting. And waiting. And waiting. Then waiting some more. For life to begin. – Unknown

I knew how fast a spiral could grab you, how far the surface could seem from below. – Unknown

The only thing I ever saw in the darkened windows was my distorted reflection watching back. My own personal haunting. – Unknown

My superpower is I feel everything and I let it rip me apart every night and still I don’t die. Instead, I grow open and make more room. – Unknown

Forgive yourself for being who you needed to be. – Unknown

Self-esteem is the ability to see yourself as a flawed individual and still hold yourself in high regard. – Unknown

The fact that someone else loves you does not rescue you from the project of loving yourself. – Unknown

What’s stopping you? – Unknown

I am still learning how to welcome myself home. – Unknown

You are wildly worthwhile. – Unknown

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. – Unknown

I am the longest relationship of my life. – Unknown

Trust the timing of your life. – Unknown

A horror interlude in the monotony of my daily life. – The Only Survivors, Megan Miranda

Maybe it would feel this way no matter where we were, as long as we were together. Maybe everything we touched together, turned to ash. – The Only Survivors, Megan Miranda

He was an outlet and a sealed box. – The Only Survivors, Megan Miranda

I believed fate was an accumulation of decisions, not all of them yours. – The Only Survivors, Megan Miranda

Every year, we returned like we were expecting some new breakthrough. But year after year, the only thing that evewas us. – The Only Survivors, Megan Miran

She felt like a magnet, like the darkness was seeking her out. Like she could see straight into the heart of others, the unspoken things they were thinking, or wondering, and something within her pulled it closer. Something within her them, promised them, I won’t tell. – The Only Survivors, Megan Miranda

You are imperfect, permanently, and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. – Amy Bloom

Being human means being in a permanent state of becoming and what a relief that is. – Unknown

All stress is caused by wanting this moment to be something it’s not. I inhale what is. I accept this time for whatever it has to show me. – Oprah

You have to say I am forgiven, again and again, until it becomes the story you believe about yourself. – Unknown

I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question getting tired of their own bullshit. – Unknown

It was sort of the first step on a long trip falling down the stairs – Unknown

I will not bend my truth to make someone else comfortable. – Unknown

The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all and then stands back to see if we can find them. – Unknown

There is nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death, I will still protect you. I am stronger than depression and braver than loneliness. Nothing will ever exhaust me. – Elizabeth Gilbert

Rock-bottom will teach you lessons that mountain tops never will. – Unknown

In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you. – Unknown

One mistake will not unravel all of the progress you’ve made. – Unknown

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself. – Unknown

Can you love yourself enough to come to terms with the magnitude of your own significance? – Unknown

You are enough, a thousand times enough. – Atticus

I am no scientist, but I think love is bound to find us all, in the end. Itunderneath doors, floats to us in the sudden wave of a childhood smell in the middle of a busy city street, stopping us in our tracks, it speaks to us in our friends’ voices, hoarse with laughter, it caresses our cheeks with the hands of our mothers. I must believe there is a little bit of love in everything, or there is little point in living. – Unknown

I’d forgotten how to take care of myself. – Unknown

Sometimes I think of my feelings as trail mix. I can be happy and sad together. That’s trail mix. – James, 10 years old, @livefromsnacktime (IG)

We suffer more in our imagination than in our reality. – Somebody’s Pastor

Wherever you go, there you are. – Unknown

Be gentle. You are just now meeting parts of yourself that you have been at war with. – @bigfightinwords (IG)

Maybe in the end we don’t really want to be loved as hard as we would want to. Maybe all we really want is to be understood. Is to be appreciated. And told that we are just as important as we think we are. – R.M. Drake

My therapist once told me: what if your mom never changes and goes to her death bed with absolutely no guilt about all the damage she caused? Your healing can’t depend on someone else deciding they also want to heal. – @QueerXiChisme (IG)

I am built from every mistake I ever made. – Unknown

You are not the worst thing you’ve ever done. – The Only Survivors, Megan Miranda

I gave the wrong people the right pieces of me. – Unknown

Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. – Unknown

You are the happiness you are looking for. – Unknown

I love those moments when I realize that I’m handling a situation better than an older version of myself would have been able to. I love conversations with myself when I realize that the self-work has been working. I love realizing that I’ve grown. – @wetheurban (IG)

It’s important to remember that those feelings that you are having aren’t your feelings. But rather a feeling that is passing through you. – Kristen Bell

I hope the pain eases soon. – Unknown

My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to others. To stop shaming ourselves and other people: ‘too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too anything.’ There’s a sense that we’re all ‘too’ something, and we’re all not enough. This is life. Our bodies change. Our minds change. Our hearts change. – Emma Stone

Hating our bodies is something that we learn, and it sure as hell is something that we can unlearn. – Megan Jayne Crabbe

Bring me your real bumps and curves and your forehead zits. Bring me your granny panties and your scars. I’m here for it. – Lauren Leavell

Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn’t like, but I’ve stopped complaining about mine because I don’t want to critique nature’s handiwork. My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece. – Alfre Woodard

You don’t tell people you’re not okay because it’s hard watching them not know what to do. Then you end up comforting them, even though the one who needed comforting was you. – Unknown

Self-care is choosing not to argue with people who are committed to misunderstanding you. – Unknown

I don’t think it’s any big secret that I was too busy collapsing in on myself to love you in the way I wanted to. – Audrey Emmett

I used to never want the heartache to end because it would mean you were really gone.

Isn’t that kind of romantic in a way? – Unknown

My existence is exhausting, all of the games I play. This is a woman’s curse. Be direct, but not too direct. Be strong, but not too strong. Ask questions, but not too many. – The Wives, Tarryn Fisher

We’re all just waiting for someone to stand behind us, aren’t we? Even if it’s just one person, it gives you strength. – The Wives, Tarryn Fisher

My hurt is a living thing – sick and swollen, still festering under the surface of my calm. It’s personal; I don’t want to show anyone else. I nurture it on my own, keep it alive. Because as long as my hurt is still there; the memory of my son is, as well. They have to coexist.” – The Wives, Tarryn Fisher

I am alone. I realize that it’s always been this way, my whole life, and anything my mind constructed to convince me otherwise was a lie. A comfortable lie I needed. – The Wives, Tarryn Fisher

We wait for him to get home, we wait for him to pay attention to us, wait to be treated fairly-for our worth to be seen and acknowledged. Life is just a waiting game for women. – The Wives, Tarryn Fisher

We busy ourselves trying not to be lonely, trying to find purpose in careers, and lovers, and children, but at any moment, those things we work so hard to possess could be taken from us. I feel better knowing I’m not alone, that the whole world is as fragile and lonely as I am. – The Wives, Tarryn Fisher

I was waiting for someone to see me. I don’t know if I’m angrier with myself more for falling for it in the first place, or for not seeing it sooner. But I know that as humans we want to be heard, and so when someone does the hearing, we feel a connection to them. I was no different than any other woman who’d been made to feel special and then, over the course of time, abandoned by the man she’d given everything up for. – The Wives, Tarryn Fisher

I wander the long, stale-smelling corridors, thinking about my choices, itemizing my weaknesses. There are so many moments in my life when I should have been awake and instead was in a sleepy, emotional trance. I allowed things to happen to me. – The Wives, Tarryn Fisher

See, that’s the thing about trauma. You never get to quit it. You never get to walk away from it and rediscover the innocence and joy you felt just before The Thing happened. – Tell Me What You Did, Carter Wilson

The thing that happened will always have happened, and that’s just that. – Tell Me What You Did, Carter Wilson

I’d give anything in the world to be a dog asleep under a kitchen table. – Tell Me What You Did, Carter Wilson

I’ve heard a million times that worrying is a waste of energy, but I still haven’t figured out how to avoid it. I’ve tried meditation, medication, distraction, cannabis, alcohol, sex, and petting my dog; the dog one keeps worrying at bay the longest. But it always comes back, eating away at me more and more. And how it feasts on me now. – Tell Me What You Did, Carter Wilson

They’ve figured out the earth weighs six septillion kilograms, Dad says, And by the looks of it, it’s all sitting right on top of those bony shoulders of yours. – Tell Me What You Did, Carter Wilson

I’ve been watching the lake at a mental remove, which happens when you’ve seen something a thousand times. Looking, but not really. Seeing everything, registering nothing. – The House Across the Lake, Riley Sager

We share the same space. breathe the same air, share the same emotional journey. And then it’s gone. The whole experience as transitory as smoke. – The House Across the Lake, Riley Sager

Trying to forget has become my full-time job. – The House Across the Lake, Riley Sager

Dinner is steak with a side salad so I can pretend my body isn’t a complete nutritional wasteland. – The House Across the Lake, Riley Sager

I know how denial works. You withhold and withhold and withhold until that mental dam breaks and all those bad urges come spilling out, often causing harm in the process. – The House Across the Lake, Riley Sager

Something that’s none of my business yet, oddly, still my concern. – The House Across the Lake, Riley Sager

It’s a lie, but maybe I’m fine is always a lie. A stubborn insistence to herself, forcing the world around her to conform to what she wants to feel. If she declares it’s fine, then it will become fine. – Mister Magic, Kiersten White

I just can’t believe you’re here. You’re really here. I looked for you, after. I never stopped. I felt so guilty that I lost you, I shaped my whole world around the space where you were missing. – Mister Magic, Kiersten White

I dream of you in colors that don’t exist. – Unknown

The littlest thing such as a scent similar to theirs can make you feel like you’re losing them all over again. – Unknown

The realization that you and only you can give yourself what you need is as heartbreaking as it is liberating. – Unknown

Don’t let what he wants eclipse what you need. He’s very dreamy, but he’s not the sun. You are. – Grey’s Anatomy

Listen, all those nights you spent wandering, little steps outside yourself, were part of a bigger journey. You have always been making your way back home. There is no one more excited for your return than you. – Unknown

The trouble is you think you have time. – Unknown

More than anything, I just want to get it right with somebody who is just as tired of getting it wrong as I am. – Unknown

Advice-giving is driven by panic. When I am in panic and need to control what I cannot control, which is another person’s life. Dear God, please keep one hand on my shoulder and the other one over my mouth. – Elizabeth Stewart

Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea that you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore. – Unknown

What if I told you that all those insecurities you’ve taken on weren’t your own and you do not have to carry them anymore? – Unknown

I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, where you are, you just have to let it go, and the river brings you home. – Unknown

The sun will rise and we will try again. – Unknown

I just don’t want to look back and think I could’ve eaten that. – Unknown

You have to constantly ask yourself if what you’re doing is in line with who you say you are. – Unknown

I know power. I have watched a hurricane from the center. I have seen a woman be a woman. – Unknown

Forgiveness doesn’t just sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up the hill. – Unkown

I have to believe that there are moments of uncorruptable beauty upon this earth. – Unknown

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it’s one thing and one thing only: it’s doing what you have to do. – Unknown

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying – I will try again tomorrow. – Unknown

I could drink a case of you darling, and still I’d be on my feet. – Unknown

I wish I had done everything on earth with you. – Unknown

Not another soul could love you like my rotten bones do. – Unknown

You are the time of my life. – Unknown

You can’t possess people, you can only experience them. – Unknown

When we’re at odds, I feel defeated and sad, knowing we are so much better than that. – Unknown