"You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it." — Tina Fey (via rufustfirefly)

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"I kind of define power now by having the confidence to make your own decisions and not be swayed by other people. And be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you made it for a good reason." — Adele
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"I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me." — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms  (via human-voices)

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"I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many changes, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool." — Theodore I. Rubin, MD (via human-voices)

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"Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I’m always missing someone or someplace or something, I’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing." — Elizabeth Wurtzel  (via wall-to-wall, quotewhore)

"I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams." — Virginia Woolf (via kales)

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"I ask, if I shall never see you again and fix my eyes on that solidity, what form will our communication take? You have gone across the court, further and further, drawing finer and finer the thread between us. But you exist somewhere. Something of you remains. A judge. That is, if I discover a new vein in myself I shall submit it to you privately. I shall ask, What is your verdict? You shall remain the arbiter. But for how long?" — Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me." — Sylvia Plath   (via billet-doux)

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"Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason." — J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction, p.185 (via salingerisms)

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." — Virginia Woolf (via amidtheashes) (via dallowayward)

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"For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of— to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others. Although she continued to knit, and sat upright, it was thus that she felt herself; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures. When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless." — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way." — Janet Fitch, White Oleander

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself." — A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

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tuesdaysuit:

Miss Dodger: At a certain point in your life, probably when too much of it has gone by, you will open your eyes and see yourself for who you are. Especially for everything that made you so different from all the awful normals. And you will say to yourself, “But I am this person.” And in that statement, that correction, there will be a kind of love.

Phoebe in Wonderland (2008)

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"So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them." — Sylvia Plath (via beauregarde)

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