Assumptions are the death of a relationship. If you think you know what’s going on inside someone else’s head, think again. We imagine that love gives us the power to read one another’s mind, when all we are really doing is reading our own. It’s a great self-defense mechanism but no substitute for actual communication. The very best way to know what’s really on someone’s mind is also the riskiest: you have to ask them.

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Tonya Hurley   (via -meridien)

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Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness.

But I must admit I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept.

May 15 201208·08 am12,899 notes
Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters (via youcantry)

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I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re going to do or become. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how amazing it will be, and imagining the future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

May 15 201208·04 am2,432 notes
John Green, Looking For Alaska (via v0lar)

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