Go with what you feel

"Oh, you haven't read the classics..." I'VE READ THE CLASSICS

“I plant roots so deeply in the people I love that I always lose a piece of myself when they go.”

“The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.”

“You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn’t care. I guess that’s what’s scariest: not caring about the loss.”

“She had felt that way during her own childhood; she’d felt like a watchful, wary adult housed in a little girl’s body. And yet nowadays, paradoxically, it often seemed to her that from behind her adult face a child about eleven years old was still gazing out at the world.”

“Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them.”

“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”