February 2012
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sometimes
My body is flooded with this overwhelming sense of loneliness and it just hurts. I feel dizzy and sick and get quiet and want to cry, but at the same time I can’t cry and I feel almost numb and empty. It’s like I’m overflowing with so much feeling that I feel nothing. I don’t know if that even makes sense, but it’s the best way of explaining it.
I don’t want to...
“I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not...”
– James Kavanaugh
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“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me...”
– Sylvia Plath
“I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision,...”
– Janet Finch
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
– Paul Coelho
“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that...”
– Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“Humor and sadness co-exist everywhere and always.”
– John Green, 1/4/12 Entertainment Weekly interview
“Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.”
– Sylvia Plath
“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and...”
– Lewis B. Smedes
“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say...”
– Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
“That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”
– John Green
“To write is to engage in a difficult relationship with our own language.”
– Roland Barthes from Criticism and Truth (1966)
on notes
hannah-the-otter:
I gave the note to the kid I had the crush on. I feel pretty safe in saying “had”. Past tense. He’s nice, but it was a purely superficial crush. I didn’t really feel anything click. We were too similar in all the wrong ways, I feel like, to ever be more than friends.
We met to hang out and talked for a couple of hours, but it felt a bit forced and awkward and not in a good...
“But what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a...”
– The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
“So maybe there’s a war, inside of me and for me and maybe my heart is the...”
– Jamie Tworkowski
“When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I...”
– John Green, Paper Towns
“You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall...”
– Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
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“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am....”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
And this is why I wrote a note and am giving it to him tomorrow. Because you should treat people how you want to be treated. And because I don’t want to carry it around inside. I want it to mean something.
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to...”
– Charles Dickens
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“No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has...”
– Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry,...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“Someday, God knows when, I will stop this absurd, self-pitying, idle, futile...”
– Sylvia Plath
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I'm basically a total dweeb
and want to write a note to the kid I have a crush on. Because, you know, I’m not a sophomore in college and about to turn 20 in about a month or anything, I’m really still in elementary school.
I’m not someone who gets crushes often, or really at all, I just never have been. And I have one now, the kind where I can barely get it out of my head.
I feel like I’d never be...
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