"You cant ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving."
 - Paul Kalanithi

superman got nothing on me

we keep this love in a photograph
we make these memories for ourselves
where our eyes are never closing
hearts are never broken
times forever frozen, still

nostalgia is a dirty liar that insists things were better than they seemed

The response came from Ash, in the form of a question." What is a story, U-ri?"

"Something only a weaver makes, I suppose. A lie."

"Not only weavers make stories. All people make stories simply by living out their lives."

Doctor Latore had said something similar. He had told her that there was no other way for men to live.

"As people walk through their ( Read more... )

Here is a list of 15 things which, if you give up on them, will make your life a lot easier and much, much happier. We hold on to so many things that cause us a great deal of pain, stress and suffering - and instead of letting them all go, instead of allowing ourselves to be stress free and happy - we cling on to them. Not anymore. Starting today ( Read more... )

it was a really painful game in which, though youre losing, you have to keep playing your best ( Read more... )

The other kind of sadness is something I can’t really explain well. I didn’t know her dying would somehow be the first concrete evidence that time is something real and completely uncontrollable. I didn’t understand that her chasing a tennis ball up to heaven would also mean staring 11 years right in the face and confirming in a deeper way that, ( Read more... )

It's not about finding someone who wont fight with you or make you sad or mad.
It's about finding the person who will still be there wiping the tears away, holding you in the arms after a fight and the one who will never leave no matter how hard things can get.

'Happiness is a risk. If you're not a little scared, then you're not doing it right.'
- Willa, The Peach Keeper (Sarah Addison Allen)