do you really feel alive without me?

“If flowers can handle the rain, so can I.”

“It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was also the train.”

“You loved a man who treated you like absinthe, half poison and half god.”

“A year from now you will wish you had started today.”

“I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow Of The Wind

You’ll meet her, she’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see, when she smiles, you’ll love her.

Do not shove your feelings away to be dealt with at a later time. Do not block emotions simply because you do not have the patience. They are an important part of being human, so please respect yourself enough to acknowledge them.

“For him it was a break-up, for her it was liberation”