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“I think you know you’ve found someone special when you meet them for the first time, and it feels like you’re just picking up where you left off. You kind of look at them and think ‘Where the hell did you come from? Where the hell have you been?’”

— Caitlyn Siehl, alonesomes.tumblr.com

“Learning to love yourself is a great accomplishment.”

— Scottie Waves, scottiewaves.tumblr.com

“You fear that love will do what it always does turn you into rain”

— Emery Allen, wethinkwedream.tumblr.com

“I crave touch, yet I flinch every time someone is close enough.”

— Grace, dollpoetry.tumblr.com

“Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your rib cage.”

— Elizabeth Corn, adamonroe.tumblr.com

“The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : "Here is your home country.”

— Nizar Qabbani, middleeasternpoetry.tumblr.com

“I did not beg him to stay because I was begging God that he would not leave.”

— Warsan Shire, warsanshirepoetryreblogs.tumblr.com

“The worst form of incompatibility is when both of you are giving but neither of you are receiving.”

— Sue Zhao, blossomfully.tumblr.com

“The moment I start to feel under appreciated I distance myself. I don't care to be anything to anyone who doesn't crave me. I don't want to be anywhere that I'm not missed every time my presence is missing...”

— Reyna Biddy, reynabiddy.tumblr.com

“If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.”

— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com

“If someday the moon calls you by your name don't be surprised, Because every night I tell her about you.”

— Shahrazad al-Khalij, nizariat.tumblr.com

“You are flowers in my stomach. Cutting me open nightly, blooming through the cracks of the ribs. I only want to be the sun for you.”

— Elke River, rwgrace.com

“I wanted to crawl into her chest and kiss everything that she'd thought I'd hate.”

— Unknown, thatkindofwoman.tumblr.com

“Isn't it crazy that even the smallest things could remind you of something or someone. You feel both a mixture of joy and pain, people and things may be temporary but the memories remain.”

— Tenari Ioapo, tenari-ioapo.tumblr.com

“I wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body.”

— Dele Olanubi, bealightinthedark.com

“We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.”

— Paul Morley, landscape-photo-graphy.com

“The world keeps moving without him? Your brain gets it but your heart is astonished.”

— Rosa Montero, wnq-writers.com

“It’s never too late to change the direction that your life is going in.”

— Wayne Dyer, fyp-psychology.com

“You’re twenty-one or twenty-nine and your heart’s been broken somewhere between four and twenty times—fetal-position-on-the-bathroom-floor broken, real-country-music broken—and you don’t know how you can ever be expected to go on like this for fifty more years and change.”

— Jade Sylvan, spokenwordacademy.tumblr.com

“Why is hard always an excuse to stop?”

— Caroline Myss, wordsnquotes.com