Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via b-ookquotes)
Tag Archives: poetic
The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret. Ally Carter, Perfect Scoundrels (via b-ookquotes)
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones (via b-ookquotes)
Her hair a prayer of curls. Warsan Shire (via lesgardenias)
thinking about you is my favourite thing to do (via socotic)
You won’t find sad people crying in public , blurting their story out over alcohol, sometimes you find them laughing around others, sometimes you will find them protecting you from their own sadness and it’s a sad fact how sometimes we have to be both brave and sad at the same time. Kriti.G, Find and …
The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and smile and go, “No, I’m happy for you?” That’s when it’s really sad. John Mayer (via kirioko)