“The next time you feel yourself getting jealous of someone else’s good fortune, think about all the secrets you have been hiding from all the people you love. Think about how shocked they would be if they knew of these terrible wounds you keep inside you. Now look back at the person who you are…”
“you have and always will be the one who taught me that people will leave you even if they love you.”
“What were you thinking, trying to ‘own’ a girl that was made of oceans and storms? Did you really think she would quietly let you control her, and that you wouldn’t drown? Do you really think girls like her are in the habit of forgiving those that try to possess them and bring them down?”
“What were you thinking, trying to ‘own’ a girl that was made of oceans and storms? Did you really think she would quietly let you control her, and that you wouldn’t drown? Do you really think girls like her are in the habit of forgiving those that try to possess them and bring them down?”
“What were you thinking, trying to ‘own’ a girl that was made of oceans and storms? Did you really think she would quietly let you control her, and that you wouldn’t drown? Do you really think girls like her are in the habit of forgiving those that try to possess them and bring them down?”
“There is enough fire inside you to put all of hell to shame, but you are pretending to be water for someone who is too afraid to handle the dragons in your belly. Stop crushing the thing that makes you. Embrace the flames. Be whole again for yourself and no one else.”
“They won’t tell you about how Red Riding was the wolf and Snow White went back to kill the queen. Or that Cinderella’s step family mysteriously disappeared after she became queen. They are afraid to let you know that Aurora woke up screaming because a strange man was kissing her without her consent.…”
“If someone is cruel to you because of your soft disposition and generosity, respond to their poison with equal parts sweet honey, equal parts dangerous ferocity.”
“They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. But honestly? Forget that. Don’t be beautiful. Be angry, be intelligent, be witty, be klutzy, be interesting, be funny, be adventurous, be crazy, be talented— there are an eternity of other things to be other than beautiful. And what…”
“Kiss someone who makes you feel their magic in your bones, who makes you wonder how can someone who looks like witchcraft at midnight taste so holy.”
“The people who consider you weak have not yet noticed the wolf hiding behind your eyes, nor the flames inside your soul. Let them think you are weak and do what wolves and fire do best. Surprise them when they least expect it.”
“Beg no one to stay. When they decide, they want to leave. Your love is not a cage for wild hearts. It is a gift to be well received.”Tagged: Get Over A Breakup, When Your Lover Leaves
“Please stop destroying what is left of your heart by constantly thinking about the things that have broken you.”
“This world is not made of shades of grey. It is made of colours like azure and coral and emerald and marigold. But it insists on painting everything in black and white and fitting it into boxes that it understands. Do not do that to yourself. Paint your personality a million different colours. Leave…”
“Every scar, every wound, every ache inside of you is a story. And stories are the wildest, most powerful things of all. Because stories can build galaxies or make entire universes break and bleed and fall.”
“Do not let your songs forget where their essence was just formed, when their bodies were most vulnerable, they were protected by the womb of a woman. If they ever call all women weak, remind them of the strength of their mother who pulled her whole body apart to give theirs a home.”
“Loving someone who does not love you in return is like pressing on the most painful of bruises even though you know how much it hurts”