"Still, the longer I was around her, the more I could see the colours of her mind and the recesses of her heart. There was a beast in there. But there was also a girl who was afraid of being a beast, and who wondered if other people had beasts in their hearts too. There was strength, and there was also just the determination to look strong. She guarded herself like a secret."
- Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily (via forlornes)
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"When I say, ‘I love you,’ it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You’re a heck of a person."
- Joss Whedon (via llae)
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"I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn’t the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then."
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Clarissa Vaughan, The Hours (2002)
{the exact feeling I have on my morning run}
(via underthecarolinamoon)(Source: anuclearmystic, via underthecarolinamoon)
"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (via coffeeishtea)
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"And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don’t know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me."
- Nicholas Sparks (via underthecarolinamoon)
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"Because when something happens, she’s the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love."
- David Levithan, Every Day (via biwwfy)
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"A woman is a warrior too. But she is meant to be a warrior in a uniquely feminine way. Sometime before the sorrows of life did their best to kill it in us, most young women wanted to be a part of something grand, something important."
- Stasi Eldredge (via underthecarolinamoon)
(via resolutewoman)
