we are the tourists in the cafes
It’s a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You’ll realize what’s changed is you.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (via opal-escence)

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thefiendfactory:

but you only need the light when its burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow, only know your lover when you let her go, only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low, only hate the road when you’re missing home

There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (via donnerpartydinnerparty)

(via v-elvet-clouds)

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they’ll make your soul impervious to the world’s soft decay.
-Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via youlooklikesomethingblooming)

(Source: emotional-algebra, via wahlflowur)

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.
-Perks of Being A Wallflower  (via sereni-ta)

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vitris:

just for a year, I want to live in a studio apartment with poetry on my walls, books stacked up, paintings half finished, listening to music I haven’t heard of yet, in a city where everyone speaks a language I can barely understand

(Source: longweeknd, via re-fre-sh)

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
-Warsan Shire (via imfantasyparade)

(Source: quote-book, via moonburne)

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
-George Orwell, 1984   (via wldlve)

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In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.
-Deepak Chopra (via cocoisqueen)

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coastally:

everything about this is just so, so accurate and perfect
only0u:

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