“There’s a reason I said I’d be happy alone. It wasn’t ‘cause I thought I’d be happy alone. It was because I thought if I loved someone and then it fell apart, I might not make it. It’s easier to be alone. Because what if you learn that you need love and then you don’t have it? What if you like it and lean on it? What if you shape your life around it and then it falls apart? Can you even survive that kind of pain? Losing love is like organ damage. It’s like dying. The only difference is death ends. This? It could go on forever.”
— Grey’s Anatomy (via runawaytrain)
11:59 pm • 2 August 2012 • 783 notes
“It doesn’t matter how tough we are, trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up, but maybe that’s the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap, maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It’s what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up before we can step up.”
— Grey’s Anatomy (via runawaytrain)
11:45 pm • 2 August 2012 • 392 notes
“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.”
— John Green (via runawaytrain)
11:42 pm • 2 August 2012 • 2,392 notes
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Don’t take gear too seriously, M. Wriston took these stunning landscapes with his iPhone on Instagram
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1:11 pm • 2 August 2012 • 2,007 notes
“You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains. You say that you love the sun, but you find a shadow spot when the sun shines. You say that you love the wind, but you close your windows when wind blows. This is why I am afraid, you say that you love me too.”
— William Shakespeare (via catharinethegreat)
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1:06 pm • 2 August 2012 • 2,797 notes
“The idea that intelligence is linked to English pronunciation is a legacy from colonial thinking.”
— Delalorm Semabia, 25, a Ghanaian blogger (via mmmajestic)
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1:03 pm • 2 August 2012 • 11,343 notes