"   Maybe sometimes, we are the ones breaking our own hearts. We walk into a situation, get attached to someone all by choice. And then we let them break our hearts, because we’re the ones who gave them the opportunity to.   "

"   I don’t chase people anymore. I learned that I’m here, and I’m important. I’m not going to run after people to prove that I matter.   "

nakedly:

You are drowning yourself by overthinking everything. The next time you find yourself overthinking or beating yourself over something, picture something simple and put no thought into it. Look at the trees moving in the wind or take a moment to look at how beautiful this world is. This world is too beautiful for you to waste your time in unecessary thoughts that are just drowning you.

afterthelonely:

thrum, v:

we were lying in bed next to each other (fingers tangled together, legs tangled together) and you said you could see my pulse under the skin at my throat. what you couldn’t see was how it was flying, faster, faster, faster – 

a hummingbird trapped under my skin, and you, the flower –