Why do the young
poets
all write
about Persephone?Maybe it’s because
we can relate.To a goddess?
To being half
sunshine
and half
grave.
People can be so quiet about their pain that you forget they’re even hurting.
People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them and their response is “you’re safe with me” - that’s intimacy.
The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo
“The shame of it was they both loved each other, but they were both too young to know how to love.”— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince (via books-n-quotes)
“You have to get lost before you find yourself.”— John Green, Paper Towns (via books-n-quotes)