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“And then, there’s another kind of love: the cruellest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space!”

- The Holiday Iris Simpkons (played by Kate Winslet)

@5 hours ago with 105 notes

"I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love."

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via natalyssa) (via dondante) (via casimirpulaskiday) (via 42th) (via gottfried) (via pretty-bird) (via letterboxlove)
@5 hours ago with 230 notes

"If you’ve ever had one of those times when you’ve clutched a pen or something else in your hand for a long time, only to look down and be surprised that you are still holding it long after your need for it had passed, you’ll understand sometimes we get so used to holding that we forget to let go."

(via sublimessy) (via umyeah) (via mitesoro) (via cowgirlblues) (via finallyseeing) (via lovebot) (via letterboxlove)
@6 hours ago with 833 notes

"She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, ‘I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.’"

Haruki Murakami (via creampuff) (via lovebot) (via letterboxlove)
@6 hours ago with 206 notes

"There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there."

Paulo Coelho (The Fifth Mountain) (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
@8 hours ago with 364 notes

"In some ways you’re pretty lucky. You opened your heart, you put yourself out there; you were ready to make that leap. I’m envious; I wish I knew what that felt like - to find someone who makes you wanna swim across the east river in January."

Ugly Betty (via creampuff) (via pretty-bird) (via letterboxlove)
@5 hours ago with 111 notes

"She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them."

Jedediah Berry (via creampuff) (via lovebot) (via letterboxlove)
@5 hours ago with 480 notes

"Do you know the most surprising thing about heartache? It doesn’t actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart, or a head-on car wreck, it should. When someone you’ve promised to cherish forever says, “I never loved you,” it should kill you instantly. You shouldn’t have to wake up day after day after that, trying to understand how in the world you didn’t know."

@6 hours ago with 480 notes

"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it."

Oscar Wilde (via dolldalera) (via quote-book)
@8 hours ago with 120 notes

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could."

Louise Erdich, The Painted Drum (via quote-book)
@8 hours ago with 504 notes