The Modern Daydream

"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened."

▼

Douglas Coupland (via larmoyante)

(via campbelltoe)

"I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it’s hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep."

▼

Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via theglasschild)

"Don’t get attached to moments. Good or bad, they all pass."

▼

Yasmin Mogahed (via showslow)

"You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free."

▼

Thich Nhat Hanh (via theglasschild)

(Source: cordura, via theglasschild)

"Do you ever think about all the people who you might have fallen in love with if only you’d taken a different way home or stood a little longer in the bread aisle at the supermarket? All the people who might have been an integral part of your life but instead you’ll never know them. The unimaginable impact that our mundane choices have on our lives really gets to me. Think of how many times I might have died if I’d made different choices. Maybe I’d be homeless. Maybe I’d be famous. Maybe I’d be rich. Sometimes I’m so overwhelmed by the impact of my choices that I can’t choose anything at all because I’m afraid today will be the day that I make the choice that changes everything."

▼

Unknown

(Source: narvaezs, via dreamerswhoneversleep)

"I just won’t sleep,” I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do."

▼

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

(Source: theglasschild)

"When I am with you, there is nowhere else I’d rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else."

▼

David Levithan (via aurelle)

(Source: simply-quotes, via quote-paradise)

"I am not a graceful person. I am not a Sunday morning or a Friday sunset. I am a Tuesday 2 a.m., am gunshots muffled by a few city blocks, I am a broken window during February. My bones crack on a nightly basis. I fall from elegance with a dull thud, and I apologize for my awkward sadness. I sometimes believe that I don’t belong around people, that I belong to all the leap days that didn’t happen. The way light and darkness mix under my skin has become a storm. You don’t see the lightning, but you hear the echoes."

▼

Unknown (via showslow)

(Source: hellanne, via campbelltoe)

"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

▼

Thomas Merton

(Source: sorakeem, via ate-icecream-in-a-desert-dream)

"Love is whatever you can still betray"

▼

John le Carré

(Source: quillsandquotes, via quote-book)

"Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen."

▼

Sylvia Plath, 3 months before her suicide

(Source: isobutane, via campbelltoe)

"I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time."

▼

Charles Bukowski

(Source: onlinecounsellingcollege, via campbelltoe)