a reason to swim

FORTH 1/48
You don't need to know anything about me.
"I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm. I would kiss you knowing it would kill me."
― Andrea Gibson

(Source: swooop)

"Before meeting you, I didn’t know what it was like to feel lonely. I never even considered myself alone. That’s because when you feel lonely, it means there is someone for you to miss."
― Nanami Takahashi 

(Source: hellanne)

"The world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness."
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 

(Source: larmoyante)

"Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself. Maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
― Unknown
"…It’s funny how someone can be such an integral part of your life, like you laugh at the same jokes and eat your ice cream cones the same way and share your toys and dreams and everything but your heartbeats, and then one day - nothing. You share nothing. It’s like none of it ever happened."
― Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah 

(Source: hlclk)

"I’m thinking that sometimes you just have to make the decision to be happy. Just realize that things aren’t ever what you hoped they’d be. Not ever. For anybody. The only thing that separates one kind of person from another is that there are some who stay angry about it and there are some who accept what comes their way."
― Olympia Dukakis
"You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge."
― Danielle LaPorte, The Positivity of Pride 

(Source: jennabee)

"You’ll kiss them, even though you can see they’re sick. Even though you know they’ll make you sick."
The Worst I’ve Felt, I Wrote This For You

(Source: gypsyveins)

"When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do."
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

(Source: simply-quotes)

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
― Cecil Beaton

(Source: violentwavesofemotion)

"When my absence doesn’t alter your life, then my presence has no meaning in it."

(Source: hopeinspiresme)

"If you’re dating a writer and they don’t write about you — whether it’s good or bad — then they don’t love you. They just don’t. Writers fall in love with the people we find inspiring."
― Jamie Anne Royce

(Source: thoughtcatalog.com)

"Just marry your conscience. Marry the one who makes you want to be a better person."
― Jay Leno

(Source: lumturia)

"The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours. It is an amazing journey, and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins."
― Bob Moawad 

(Source: kari-shma)

"The thought of her hands
touching his hair
makes me want to vomit."
― Richard Brautigan

(Source: beautyisanillusion)

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