You burn
me.
Sappho, from Fragments of Sappho: If Not Winter (translated by Anne Carson)

If God is male, then male is God.
Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation.

If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.
A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner (via alfredhitchcocksss)

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
Oscar Wilde (via licorne-)

‘But I like you.’ He cleared his throat. ‘I like you first and second and third.’
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via ohfairies)

It’s scary how people leave scars on you; how certain people will never really vanish from the thoughts in your mind. I mean, I don’t think I will ever get over you. It’s not that I’m sad about us; but, sometimes in the middle of the day, out of nowhere, I hear your sentence quoted. I hear one of your phrases, loud in my mind, and I feel the way it goes all the way down to my heart again, destroying me like a tsunami. It overcomes you slowly. It’s like I get thrown back into the sea, and waves of my thoughts are crashing over me. I don’t know how I am supposed to get over a person, and you don’t have to. You can still cry after months about it. Even when you’re married and endlessly happy with that person, you should be able to cry about your first love. Not because you’re still in love with them, even if a little part still is, but because you will always love what you once loved. You learn to understand it. With every new moment and experience in your life, you start to understand, piece by piece, what was happening back then.
Elay Neal Moses  (via journal23rd)

I don’t mean to hate people, I just get forced into it.
Jon Richardson, It’s not me - it’s you. 

I have too many romantic fantasies and they make me sad.
Graham Coxon (via damon-scene)

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.
Opening Line from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (via riffleclassics)