"Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me."
– F. Scott Fitzgerald. (via religion-of-solitude)

"When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out."
– Paper Towns (via quotes-frombooks)

"The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along."
– Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi (via danny-sparks)