I don't trust....

"I DON’T TRUST THE TRUTH OF MEMORIES
BECAUSE WHAT LEAVES US
DEPARTS FOREVER
THERE’S ONLY ONE CURRENT OF THIS SACRED RIVER
BUT I STILL WANT TO REMAIN FAITHFUL
TO MY FIRST ASTONISHMENTS
TO RECOGNIZE AS WISDOM THE CHILD’S WONDER
AND TO CARRY IN MYSELF UNTIL THE END A PATH
IN THE WOODS OF MY CHILDHOOD
DAPPLED WITH PATCHES OF SUNLIGHT
TO SEARCH FOR IT EVERYWHERE
IN MUSEUMS IN THE SHADE OF CHURCHES
THIS PATH ON WHICH I RAN UNAWARE
A SIX-YEAR OLD
TOWARD MY PRIMARY MYSTERIOUS ALONENESS"

~   Anna Kamieńska, from “A Path in the Woods,“Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamieńska, eds & trans. Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon (Paraclete Press, 2007)

image no source, anyone?- via maggieontherocks

I think...

"I THINK GENTLENESS IS ONE OF THE MOST DISARMINGLY AND CAPTIVATINGLY ATTRACTIVE QUALITIES THERE ARE."

~   NAYYIRAH WAHEED

unknown source, via studio 903

Somewhere...

"SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SOUND AND SILENCE"

~   (via SKETCHESFORANASSUMEDNAME)

(via WHERETHESPIRITMEETSTHEBONEPOSTS)

slik pleat & knit top @keplerlondon 🌻shot @robbiel1 model @nyx92k

A year...

"STILL, AS THAT YEAR WENT ON, I HAD TROUBLE TRUSTING THAT THINGS WERE REALLY GETTING BETTER."

~   Sarah Dessen

Bruno Metra and Laurence Jeansen

I can have....

"I CAN HAVE PEACE OF MIND ONLY WHEN I FORGIVE RATHER THAN JUDGE."

~   GERALD JAMPOLSKY

Sara Hiromi photographed by Magdalena Kmiecik for SSENSE

in the end...

"IN THE END I SUCCEEDED. BUT, THE STRUGGLE IS NOT YET OVER."

~   SIGMUND FREUD

@dereklam F/W 2017 📸 by @f_fleur Styled by @jessicazwu

I've been...

"I’VE BEEN HOMESICK FOR COUNTRIES I’VE NEVER BEEN, AND LONGED TO BE WHERE I COULDN’T BE."

~    JOHN CHEEVER

Ph. Gelou Karoll

honest...

"BEING ENTIRELY HONEST WITH ONESELF IS A GOOD EXERCISE."

~   SIGMUND FREUD

marta bevacqua photography

see...

"SEE, I’VE BEEN TO HELL AND BACK SO MANY TIMES I MUST ADMIT YOU KIND OF BORE ME."

~   RAY LAMONTAGNE, “Empty,” Album: till the sun comes back

original source, anyone? via the shiny squirrel

it's easy to hate...

"IT’S SO EASY TO HATE, IT TAKES STRENGTH TO BE GENTLE AND KIND.."

~   THE SMITHS, “I Know It’s Over,” Album: The Queen Is Dead (1986)

@cajsawessberg in @peetdullaert shot @linazangers styled by @sophiaschwan for @knotsmagazine 🌹

yes....

"YES, TEARS CAN BE THOUGHTS, WHY NOT?"

~   LOUISE ERDRICH, The Round House 

Zarina Nares by Alexandra Nataf for H&M Beauty 

you may...

"YOU MAY TALK. AND I MAY LISTEN. AND MIRACLES MIGHT HAPPEN."

~   ERNEST HEMINGWAY, The Complete Short Stories

Ph. Jack Clark 

This year...

"THIS YEAR I ONLY WANT TO BE AROUND THE PEOPLE THAT LOVE ME, NOT THE PEOPLE THAT PRETEND THEY DO."

~   UNKNOWN (via WORDSNQUOTES)

“Black flowers”. Photographed by Jason Hetherington for Amica March 2015

people are not...

"PEOPLE
ARE NOT
RAIN
OR
SNOW
OR AUTUMN
LEAVES;

THEY
DO NOT
LOOK
BEAUTIFUL
WHEN
THEY
FALL."

~   NAV K. 

Ph. Andrew Gough

I swallowed the entire ocean...

"I SWALLOWED THE ENTIRE OCEAN, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU COULD NEVER DROWN AGAIN."

~   DONTFORGETCOFFEE 

Hyoni Kang by Mok Jung Wook for W Korea Sept 2016

No one knows...

"NO ONE KNOWS FOR CERTAIN HOW MUCH IMPACT THEY HAVE ON THE LIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE. 

OFTENTIMES, WE HAVE NO CLUE. YET WE PUSH IT JUST THE SAME."

~   JAY ASHER, Thirteen Reasons Why  

FRANZ GRÜNEWALD - Øjeblik - for C-Heads Magazine

Out of suffering...

"OUT OF SUFFERING HAVE EMERGED THE STRONGEST SOULS; 

THE MOST MASSIVE CHARACTERS ARE SEARED WITH SCARS."

~   KHALIL GIBRAN 

Erika Svensson

If you....

"IF YOU HAVE BEEN BRUTALLY BROKEN, 

BUT STILL HAVE THE COURAGE TO BE GENTLE TO OTHERS THEN YOU DESERVE A LOVE DEEPER THAN THE OCEAN ITSELF."

~   NIKITA GILL

Danielle Alprin

Who's the real you?...

"WHO’S THE REAL YOU? 

THE PERSON WHO DID SOMETHING AWFUL, OR THE ONE WHO’S HORRIFIED BY THE AWFUL THING YOU DID? 

IS ONE PART OF YOU ALLOWED TO FORGIVE THE OTHER?"

~   REBECCA STEAD, Goodbye Stranger

. Hirohito Okayasu 

you're...

"YOU’RE SO CALM AND QUIET, YOU NEVER SAY. 

BUT THERE ARE THINGS INSIDE YOU. I SEE THEM SOMETIMES, HIDING IN YOUR EYES."

~   TRACY CHEVALIER, Girl with a Pearl Earring

image unknown, source, anyone?