shake the dust.

another example of Koko’s humour by Jane Goodall:

“Maybe we’ll meet again, when we are slightly older and our minds less hectic, and I’ll be right for you and you’ll be right for me. But right now, I am chaos to your thoughts and you are poison to my heart.”

Illustrator Lili Chin’s adorable series Dogs of the World illustrates 192 breeds of dogs grouped according to geographical origin.

Cutting you out of my life was as painful as ripping a band aid from an infected wound. An inevitably bitter action, yet mandatory if you were to stop the pain from getting worse. To my surprise the moment you left my skin the world began to show colours I’d forgotten it existed.

you put stars in my sky and then left me in the dark

I may have lost someone who didn’t love me back, but you lost someone who truly loved you.

loving you is the most amazing thing i’ve ever done. i never want to stop. please let me in, please don’t let me go, please keep on loving me, please miss me when we’re apart, please make promises and keep them, please make plans for me, please hold on. please let me love you.

I no longer think that love should feel like a battlefield or a hurricane but rather, two people taking the same train to the same places. So, maybe in some alternate universe where our hearts still whisper the same language, you’d read this, make your way to the next stop, and I’d save you a seat. But… as it is, I’ve been seeing a hell of a lot more without you in my view.

I am not sorry for who I had to become in order to survive.

I really wish you hadn’t made me feel all those things if you weren’t going to stay but please don’t tell me this isn’t what you wanted to happen because you were the who walked away.