Okay But Saying “i Wish I Had Known You Sooner” — Like The Love In My Heart Is Growing So Big And

When Taylor Swift said “everybody wants you everybody wonders what it would be like to love you” and when Hole said “they really want you and I do too” and when Harry Styles said I know I’m not your only but at least I’m one, I heard a little love is better than none”

Honestly it’s so hard to be the coolest friend who understands everything and calms everyone down

Me in love

It's just how different suffering can look and feel. You see movies and shows where you see a character in pain but the lens makes it pretty, the suffering is beautiful and then you look at yourself and nothing about your pain is pretty, nothing is worth looking at. So you tell yourself this is not real- that your pain and your agony don't really exist and you're just being dramatic but if you could see what you feel, would you still be so harsh on yourself?

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

it's strange. i felt less lonely when i didn't know you.

- Jean-Paul Sartre, The Flies

It must have been impossible to insult Kafka. Like, imagine that you call him an insufferable asshole and he just agrees with you. And then he would write in his diary about it.

February 15th I know I am the most insufferable of humans. Horrible. No sleep. Awful.

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”

— Osho

I say I'm okay and I am okay.. but some evenings I barely move from the chair and some mornings I skip breakfast and don't open your texts. I say I'm okay and I am okay but some nights my hands shake when I think of getting up the next morning.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from Elle took a knife and carved her thighs

“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely? Wasn’t this house, this beauty, this comfort, this life a miracle?”

— Hanya Yanagihara, from A Little Life