more random ones. when i read quotes like these i am reminded that my words aren't the only beautiful ones written.

i sew sunshine onto your skin

ribbons that glow warm

the humg of the wind

catches on your breath

butterfly, butterfly"

She was a girl who knew how to act happy even when she was sad, and that's important.

~Marilyn Monroe

My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

~Johnny Depp

There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome.

And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up.

You can wake you up. I can't cure you.

You can cure you.

~John Lennon

I do understand that impulse. The impulse to put your hand out and want someone to be there at the end of your reach. To want someone to be close to. To want to kiss or touch even if it's wrong. The point is, you can't control these feelings. Even if they're wrong, they're there. They're always there.

The only two places where I feel absolutely safe are either in bed with fresh, white sheets and pillows surrounding my head or in water. Like on the bottom of a swimming pool. Alone. Weightless. Peaceful. Nobody talking. Nobody pretending. Just being. Those are the only two places. Everywhere else I get smacked in the face with arrogance, ignorance, shallowness. They knock me down and leave me bleeding on the floor.

No one is free. Even birds are chained to the sky.

You'll meet her, she's very pretty, even though sometimes she's sad for many days at a time. You'll see, when she smiles, you'll love her.

~Ophelia; Pan's Labyrinth

I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

~Marilyn Monroe

I shut my eyes in order to see.

~Paul Gaugin

sometimes you're further than the moon; sometimes you're closer than my skin.

In your whole life, nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit of abuse that you will tolerate from someone else.

I trust the sun will set. I trust the world will end. I trust my gut. I trust death. I trust life. I trust anything that has not fallen through. I trust everything that has given me a reason. But I can't trust you.

To exist for just yourself is meaningless.

~Denis Waitley

I want to scream and pound my head against the wall and climb the damned dusty, faded stringy curtains. I've got to get out of here. I've got to get the hell out of here before I really blow my cool all the way. I'm scared and lonely and I'm sick, I'm as sick as I've ever been in my life.

Sometimes even depressing things can be utterly beautiful.

It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real. Well, sometimes, I can do that, but I don't need an hour in front of a mirror. It just happens very fast, and things start to slip away. And I just open my eyes, and I see nothing. And then I start to breathe really hard trying to see something, but I can't. It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it scares me.

~The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

its what people do; they stay alive for each other.

I am convinced that the human spirit is precious and fragile and beautiful no matter how crushed it becomes.