"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

Ernest Hemingway (via rulesformyunbornson)

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justoneplace:

I’ve been quiet.
I mean, you can only write
so many times
about being with someone
who doesn’t love you
back.

It’s exhausting.

We were supposed to
put the color
into everything
again.

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(Source: sore-thumbelina, via sadnesses)

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love” which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."

Augustine of Hippo

"Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it"

Swedish Proverb

"I’m interested in love and the lack of it and the crazy things we do to get it. The knight slays the dragon and then lives happily ever after with the princess in the castle, but when they’ve moved in together, they have to share a bathroom. How do you keep love alive in a domestic situation? What is it about that that dismantles love?"

Ryan Gosling

"Liars is all you’re ever going to find in this world. You have to find if they are just liars or liars worth loving."

From the movie Adam

"Warm and sunny,” people said when speaking of California, but I knew it as a place where fear lived. Now we were going there. We were crossing the desert to face that fear, and I was afraid."

Louis L’Amour - The Lonesome Gods

For A

I’ll rise up one of these days, 
find my way to the airport. 
I’ll rise up and say 
I loved you better than you loved me

Leonard Cohen, My Honour. Paris, 1987

To my beautiful friend, who has learned the hard way that sometimes learning to love yourself means learning the person you love doesn’t deserve you. You are so strong, and I’m so proud of you for making that change. 

"I love you, always. Time is nothing."

The Time Traveler’s Wife