"We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are — that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person — someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have."
— Galway Kinnell (via runawaytrain)
"What I’m asking for is for you to love me for me, for all of me. The parts of me you like, the parts of me you don’t, the parts of me that cannot be all you hope me to be. That’s all I’m asking for."
— (via eletheowl)
"What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call."
— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (via runawaytrain)
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened."
— Douglas Coupland
"Don’t do things and tell the world that it’s not your personal choice. It defeats the purpose entirely and probably makes things worse."
"Don’t fill in the void for someone else only to jeopardize your current happiness."
"If I tear my seams
will you always be the thread
that sews me back up?"
Being safe.. Is that all that matters?
Wouldn’t it make more sense if you try to be someone that people are afraid to lose?
