“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.”
–
Vladimir Nabokov, from a letter to Vera (January 19, 1925), featured in “Letters To Vera” by Vladimir Nabokov (Russian, 1899-1977)
““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
“Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.”
— Warsan Shire
(via wordsnquotes)
“If we were meant to be, we would have been by now.”
-Billie Eilish
“If only my heart were as cold as I pretend it is, maybe I could get over this.”
— Jessica Katoff
“Make the first move, tell people how you feel, stop being so scared of rejection, stop feeling so engulfed with thoughts that aren’t even yours, and stop wasting your fucking time.”
— what i needed to hear
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