Unbearably Besotted

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.

—Shampoo Planet, Douglas Coupland (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.

—Anaïs Nin   (via creatingaquietmind)

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Control is the theme that runs through the lives of many survivors: I have a tremendous attachment to things going my way. It feels like I’m going to die if I don’t get my way. There are a lot of small, everyday interactions that make me feel tremendously out of control.

—The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis (via creatingaquietmind)

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When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.

—Andy Warhol  (via creatingaquietmind)

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Did you know that grace flows through
your veins riding on the back of droplets
of blood and that when a cut
accidentally finds its way to your
skin it jumps off and clings
to any and everything inside you.
It fights like you fight and stays
inside you at all times.
Did you know I want to be…

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