I Hope You Dance
October 2011
28 posts
“It’s much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and than make the choice to share it with other people. You can’t just sit their and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is. And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there could always be someone to blame. It’s just different. Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it’s okay to feel things. I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. I feel infinite.”
—Stephen Chbosky (via black-wolves)
“Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter”
—Lemony Snicket (via black-wolves)
“I felt like crying but nothing came out. It was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. But I think I have known it pretty often, too often”
—Charles Bukowski (via black-wolves)
“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook (via curitas)
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.”
—Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid (via black-wolves)
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Sometimes things don’t work out like you think they will, but other times your fears come true. I’m struggling to accept that I wasn’t as important to someone as I thought I was. But I know in my heart that I’ve known that for a while. Sometimes things just aren’t right and you have to figure it out the hard way. I don’t regret anything except that I led myself on. Now I’m happily settling into UVA and have some of the best friends I could have ever asked for. The old and the new have helped make me who I am today. I just wanted to say thanks to Abe-lexis. I miss you so much and our phone call really helped yesterday. <3 Caitlin: I know you are stalking this blog!! Thank you for being a great friend and I can’t wait to come visit in DC again. :) Emma: Our weekly dinners are truly one of the highlights of my week yet I still find myself missing you and our insanity! Calvert: WE NEED TO CATCH UP! I miss you soooo much. I can’t believe I was so close and couldn’t visit. :/
I’m very lucky to call these people my best friends. I’m also lucky to have some really great new people in my life. Eric, Nisha, and Liz, I don’t know how I’d survive here without you. Io sono nono bandito. And yes I am tiny, but you’re a poser. It’s supposed to rain again….so maybe we’ll have a dance party.
A breakup may be a momentary setback, but with friends like you guys, it could never get me down.
<3
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’”
—Erich Fromm (via curitas)
“To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.”
—Plato (via curitas)
