"When someone won’t let you in, eventually you stop knocking. Know what I mean?"

Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
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"I’m not totally mad at you. I’m just sad. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside."

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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"Highly sensitive (introverted) people process their environments - both physical and emotional - unusually deeply. They tend to notice subtleties that others miss - another person’s shift in mood, or a lightbulb burning a touch too brightly."

Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
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"I asked for water, she brought me gasoline."

Howlin’ Wolf, “I Asked For Water”
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"She’ll only break your heart, it’s a fact. And even though I warn you, even though I guarantee you that the girl will only hurt you terribly, you’ll still pursue her. Ain’t love grand?"

Great Expectations (1996), Dir. Charles Dickens (via wordsnquotes)

"What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her."

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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"If you told me today our being together would result in heartbreak, I would still choose to be with you because I believe that truly living life is in the experiences, not the outcomes."

Kathryn Vance-Perez, Love and Truth  (via wordsnquotes)

"She’s a mess of gorgeous chaos and you can see it in her eyes."

Charles Bukowski
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"She is not ‘my girl.’
She belongs to herself. And I am blessed, for with all her freedom, she still comes back to me, moment-to-moment, day-by-day, night-by-night.
How much more blessed can I be?"

Avrahan Chaim, Thoughts after the alchemist (via wordsnquotes)

"For the moment I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired."

Friedrich Nietzsche, Letter to Freiherr Karl von Gersdorff,“ April 1, 1874
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"

if I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside

on my fingertips
and at brain edges

and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.

"

Charles Bukowski, “Letter to Katherine,” January 26, 1976
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