She was like an empty room after everyone’s left. Something incredibly important had disappeared for good. Leaving behind not life but its absence. Not the warmth of something alive but the silence of memory.
— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
— James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet,
Sundays at Tiffany’s (via
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Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them.
— From someone’s FB Status
Some people never got to touch their dreams, never know what that feels like.. never find that thing they love or get to do it for a living. So is it a tragedy to have that taken away from you? No. The tragedy would be to lay awake at night wondering ‘what if’.
— Nathan, One Tree Hill Season 8 Ep.5
And the truth is, that without you, I’ll be the one who’s lost.
— One Tree Hill Season 8 Ep 1
We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad: right now we are here, and nothing can mark our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.
— (Anonymous)
The whole point of love is to put someone else’s needs above your own, and maybe that’s why I’m here.
— When In Rome
