"I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (via quote-book)

"I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane."

John Green (Looking for Alaska) (via quote-book)

"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."

Manly Hall (via disappearedhere) (via quote-book)

"Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it"

Joyce Cary  (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)

"if we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed."

Leo Tolstoy, War and peace | (via thedopestlife) (via quote-book)