my mind reeling

"Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between."
— Maya Angelou

"I have nothing to declare except my genius." 
— Oscar Wilde

Sometimes you have to be strong for yourself. You have to know that you’re a good person & a good friend. What is meant to be will end up good & what isn’t, wont. Relationships are worth fighting for, but sometimes you can’t be the only one fighting. At times, people need to fight for you. If they don’t, you must just move on & realize what you gave them was more than they were willing to give you. Hopefully, people realize great things when they come around & don’t lose something real. Always fight until you cant anymore, and then be fought for.

There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they’re good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn’t mean you’ll be together forever. It doesn’t mean you won’t hurt each other. It just mean you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.

 Laurell K. Hamilton (Incubus Dreams)

Nobody deserves your tears, whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

— Gabriel García Márquez

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living

— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

This that is tormented and very tired,
tortured with restraints like a madman,
this heart.

—Rumi

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” 

— Bertrand Russell