"Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It`s always there, though."
—Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (via englishpearl)

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"I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"
—Voltaire (via venebelle)

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"I tried again to sleep; but my heart beat anxiously: my inward tranquillity was broken."
—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via seabois)

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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
—from The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (via englishpearl)

(via loveyourchaos)

"I don’t think I’m fixed. People think that you’re like a car in a body shop. You go in, they fix you, and you’re out. And you work like you’re brand new, it doesn’t work like that. It takes constant fixing."
—Demi Lovato (via dangerousdinosaur)

(via white--elephants)

"Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just ­sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating."
—Anneli Rufus (via airplanes)

(via lastofthetimeladies)

"That’s what I like about God; not beauty or truth, but irony."
—Quantam Universe

"You’re going to lose weight, and buy a closet full of new clothes, and whiten your teeth, and cut your hair, and move to a great apartment in a different city, and make new cooler friends. And you’re still going to be unhappy."
—Unknown (via cavum)

(via time-wave)

"This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals—sounds that say listen to this, it is important."
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Gary Provost (via qmsd)

This might be my favourite quote on writing ever.

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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain about themselves, and wiser people are so full of doubts."
—Bertrand Russell (via iseetheseainyoureyes)

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