“You need not do anything. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, just wait. You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary. And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked. It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.” ~Franz Kafka

“Finding someone isn’t about trying to transform yourself into the perfect image of what you think they want. It’s about being exactly who you are and then finding a person who appreciates that.”

“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.” ~Richard Siken

“The day will happen whether or not you get up.” ~John Ciardi

“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.” ~Dorothy Day

“Jealously is just a map, that’s all it is. If you’re jealous of someone, what it is is “Oh, why aren’t I there?” and then all it is is the point you want to go to on a map, and you’ve just got to fill in the path to get there. That’s all it is, that’s all jealously is. If you think of jealously as “Oh, it means that I am less of a person or I’m wrong or I’m…”, then of course you’re going to get stuck in this dark black pit that you’re not gonna get out of, but if you think “It’s a map, oh…” ~Patton Oswalt

“The difference between physical attraction and love is the ability to see the same person at their best and at their worst and still desire them without one false step.” ~Adam Chamness

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” ~Will Rogers

“Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out, and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they’re opened, can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it’s been lost, can never be won back.” ~Alice Hoffman

“If she loves you, if she really loves you, you’ll know it. If you can wake up to her staring at you and it’s not even mildly creepy, if you catch her smelling the shoulder of the hooded sweatshirt you lent her for an autumn walk at the beach, and not for B.O., if she makes you a pancake in the shape of a shark, if she calls you drunkenly at four in the morning “to talk,” if she laughs at your jokes when they’re funny and makes fun of you when they’re not, if she keeps her fridge stocked with Guinness tallboys for when you come over, if she tells you how she wishes she were closer to her sister and that her dad makes her sad: She loves you, of course she loves you.” ~Pasha Malla