"It’s the things we love most, that destroy us."
Suzanne Collins
"Maybe that’s worse, not letting ourselves be loved. Because we’re too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose."
Mitch Albom
"—But I stayed put! I stayed put! And I will want to leave again and again. But I will stay, I will stay. I didn’t promise that. But I will do it to prove myself worthy of your affection. And I will be worthy."
Arthur Rimbaud, from a letter to Georges Izambart c. November 1870, featured in “
I Promise to be Good: Letters,”
(via
violentwavesofemotion)