“I fall asleep whispering “I am safer alone I am safer alone I am safer alone I am safer alone" […] Forgive me, memory is a rope around the neck.”

— Clementine von Radics, from James (via unpetalled)

“Life is what happens to someone else; / I stand on the sidelines and wring my hands.”

— Lisel Mueller, from Waving from Shore: Poems; “Poem for My Birthday”

“It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.”

— Stephen King, Joyland  

(Source: thequotejournals.com)

“Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.”

— Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays 

(Source: wordsnquotes.com)