books, quoted.

I don’t think I’ll ever be happy until I figure out who I am and it comes down to me not being a hundred percent happy with the life I have.

“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”

“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”

I’m ready to lose myself,

but I’m not ready to lose you.

I’m ready to find myself,

But I’m not ready for you to know what I find.

It’s weirdly possessive and obsessive to like someone; you want to learn all of his stories before anyone else and sometimes you want to be the only one who knows at all.

It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.

If the blind can find joy in music, and the deaf can discover it with colors, I will do my best to always find the sun in the darkness because my life isn’t one sad ending–it’s a series of endless happy beginnings.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

You are kind and too good for the bad you’ve lived through.

If you looked inside me, I bet you’d find two different hearts beating for two different people, like the sun and moon up at the same time, a terrible eclipse I’m the only witness to. My worlds collided and I can’t get up.

Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.

Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.

She can turn clean, white walls into the crumbling sides of a castle. She can turn an indoor space into a garden. She’s an artist. It hurts to be this close to her.

“Your close calls are getting old. I thought you knew how to run.”

“I thought you told me to stop running.”

His soul might be a sun. I’ve never met anyone who had the sun for a soul.

He’d never been claustrophobic but the weight of so much hatred has almost crushed every bone in his body.