“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there–like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”— Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
“Why do I thrash about, why do I fuss inside this narrow, limited frame, when life, the whole of life, with all its joys, is open to me?”— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (via halfaxas)
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”— Paulo Coelho (via shrinemaidens)
love is good. don’t ever give up on love. don’t ever think love is bad because you got hurt. love is literally the only thing on this planet that has never been and won’t ever be bad. whatever hurt you was the absence of love. love is good. continue to love. spread as much love as you can, especially when you feel like there’s not much of it around you. love is good.
