“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
I let my walls down for you, but you only made me remember why I built them so high.
-Mansi
"Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.”
- Brene Brown
“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“It scares me how much I don’t mind it when people walk away out of my life, I wave goodbyes with a smile. Maybe because I like it this way and maybe that’s why I only let the temporary people in because I know eventually they will leave.”
— Maram Rimawi
“And there was nothing poetic about wanting to kill myself and writing so many suicide notes in my head explaining how sorry I was for the things I did not become. There was nothing poetic and beautiful about crying myself to sleep every night for the past 5 years hoping someone would care enough to save me. No one saved me. No one was going to save me because there is nothing poetic about thinking you can’t be saved. There is nothing poetic about staring at a blank wall for an entire day or smiling and laughing the next and having people think “oh she’s fine.” There was nothing poetic and beautiful about trying to take my own life. There is nothing poetic and beautiful about my mother having a panic attack every time I have a bad day and lock my door. There is nothing poetic and beautiful about me not taking my pills because I don’t know who I am without this sadness. There is nothing poetic and beautiful about having depression and wishing you were dead. There was nothing poetic and beautiful about my depression or anyone else’s depression nor will there ever be anything beautiful and poetic about it.”
— Fuck anyone that says it’s beautiful//Deeply Feeling Series (via promisesofamazing)
what-even-is-thiss