I was very fond of you, but now I’m so, so tired. I’m not happy to go, but one needn’t be happy to make another start.

Camus, Albert. The Plague.�� (via wordsnquotes)

Love says, ‘I love you.’ I love you if you’re in China. I love you if you’re cross town. I love you if you’re in Harlem. I love you! I would like to be near you. I’d like to have your arms around me. I’d like to hear your voice in my ear. But, that’s not possible now so—I love you. Go.

Maya Angelou, [x] (via naturalqueer)

Before John Green, his general category of realistic (non-fantasy) YA was rife with teen angst and “issues” fiction that you might have associated with the legendary Judy Blume, or with newer writers like Sarah Dessen or Laurie Halse Anderson. Anderson’s classic 1999 novel Speak, about a high schooler struggling to deal with the aftermath of sexual assault, was so influential that three years later Penguin launched an entire imprint named after it. One of the books launched under the behest of Speak was Green’s Looking for Alaska. But it’s Green whose name you’re more likely to know today, not Anderson’s, although Anderson has won more awards and written more books.On Twitter, Green has 2 million followers. Compared to the rest of the leaders in Young Adult fiction, that number is staggering. To approach even half the Twitter influence of John Green all by himself, you need an entire army of YA women. Anderson, Blume, Dessen, Veronica Roth, Cassandra Clare, Richelle Mead, Margaret Stohl, Kami Garcia, Rainbow Rowell, Maureen Johnson, Malinda Lo, Holly Black, LJ Smith, Ellen Hopkins, Shannon Hale, Lauren Myracle, Libba Bray, Melissa Marr, and Leigh Bardugo: As a group these women only have about 1.2 million followers on Twitter. That’s the voice of one man outweighing several decades of women who have had major successes, critical acclaim, and cultural influence.

"Young Adult Publishing and the John Green Effect" (via delicatedad)

When a man succeeds in a devalued (because of its association with women) field, he legitimizes it in popular opinion.

(via survivorsuperhero)

Just because your pain is understandable, doesn’t mean your behavior is acceptable.

Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience (via quotes-shape-us)

"How do we forgive ourselves for all of the things we did not become?"

"14 Lines from Love Letters or Suicide Notes" by David ‘Doc’ Luben  (via bruisedkneesclub)

You never know how sick you are until you try to recover.

unknown  (via ithurtssomuch)

If no woman in your life has ever talked to you about how she lives her life with an undercurrent of fear of men, consider the possibility that it may be because she sees you as one of those men she cannot really trust.

—Chris Clarke, How Not To Be An Asshole: A Guide For Men (2011 version)

Goddamn this post is still one of my all-time faves.

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I hope she kisses you with the entire universe in her mouth so that you wake up with stars on your lips and a smile that drips constellations.

Y.Z   (via bokura)

I deserve happiness. So I left.

(via caffeinated-butterfly)

i feel small; but so are stars from a distance.

ten word poem, i.  (via raikou)

Hearts are wild creatures, that’s why our ribs are cages.

(via elalusz)

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

Laurell K. Hamilton (via teenagersintokyo)

It’s been too many nights of being with to now be suddenly without.

Too Many Nights, Jewel. (via motsmaudits)

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

Unknown (via hefuckin)

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard (via observando)

If you can’t handle me at my Sasuke, you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my Naruto.

Socrates (via sprightlyvigilante)

There is no designated time for anything in your life. You don’t have to have your first kiss at any certain time, you don’t have to get married in your 20′s and you don’t have to do anything just because other people think it’s best. In fact, you will be much better off if you just do what your heart says. The day you stop caring what other people think is the day their opinions don’t mean anything, because you’re not there to give them weight.

10 Things I Wish I Could Have Told Myself 5 Years Ago (via beepboopboopbeep)

For years, mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.”… The truth is you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., “The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog” (via perfect)

Stop romanticizing people who hurt you.

Six Word Story #48 by absentions (via slybloo)

Don’t wait for somebody else to tell you that you are special.

lazyyogi (via roxion)