urbannativegirl: “People think your soulmate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soulmate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.” Elizabeth Gilbert

“At night, when the bustle of the living grows still, you can hear them: in the ripe shadow of the mango trees, under the blue cobbled streets, in the grey clumps of dried palm fronds.” – Aurora Levins Morales (via lachantefleurie)

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead. James Joyce, Dubliners (’The Dead”)