You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

—Richelle Mead (via kari-shma)

(via quote-book)

I am strong because I am weak
I am beautiful because I know my flaws
I am a lover because I am a fighter
I am fearless because I have been afraid
And i can laugh because I have known sadness.

She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.

—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via runawaytrain)

(via fchung)

NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY