“I love you. Infinitely and inexpressibly. I’ve woken up in the middle of the night and here I am writing this. My love, my happiness.”
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Vladimir Nabokov, from a letter to Vera (January 19, 1925), featured in “Letters To Vera” by Vladimir Nabokov (Russian, 1899-1977)
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer (via coral)
I’ve learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them. I’ve learned that no matter how much you care, some people just don’t care back. And it’s not the end of the world. Wish them well and move on with your life.
““I remember one morning getting up at dawn. There was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling. And I… I remember thinking to myself: So this is the beginning of happiness, this is where it starts. And of course there will always be more…never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment, right then.””
— Michael Cunningham, The Hours
“How do you know it’s time to let go? Do you focus on the fact that you’ve tried over and over and over and you’re still unhappy? Or do you focus on the fact that there were some good times and you’re too determined to let the good times go to waste? When is being determined deemed too unrealistic and when should I just realise that if it was meant to be, it would have been by now?”
— I don’t want to let go, but I have nothing to hold on to (ms, 2018)
“Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.”
— Warsan Shire
(via wordsnquotes)
“If only my heart were as cold as I pretend it is, maybe I could get over this.”
— Jessica Katoff
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