"There was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, 'You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!' said the straight tree. He said, 'I'm tall and I'm straight.' And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, 'Cut all the straight trees.' And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange."
428 "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin (via standinglikeaguiltyschoolboy)
54018 "There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (via fleshscars)
525 "When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to someone who leaves you. And it doesn’t mean they are bad people, it just means that their part in your story is over."
— (via wordsandlyrics)
3042 "How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into."
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via lavandula)