suggested by proudownerofavagina
"I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
"Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself?"
-Stargirl (Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli)
(Source: quote-book)
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
(Source: aseaofquotes, via teachingliteracy)
"How much of my brain is wilfully my own? How much is not a rubber stamp of what I have read and heard and lived? Sure, I make a sort of synthesis of what I come across, but that is all that differentiates me from another person?"
-Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via thievess)
(via quote-book)
"What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense."
-The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (via silentandgray)
misswallflower:
This made me so sad.
Confidently, I can say “yes”. Would I be a little confused, a little taken aback? Perhaps, but I would be so very proud as well.
(Source: hold-onpain-ends, via misswallflower)
"All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself."
-Ralph Ellison (via atomos)
(via teachingliteracy)
