young and tempted.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened.

—Douglas Coupland (via misswallflower)

(via iqeeoshah)

I moved away to a place where I knew nobody and where I thought nobody would come. I switched my phone off and didn’t respond to messages. People would ask what was wrong and I would tell them I had a problem with my phone; I just wouldn’t tell them that the problem was that having it turned on made me feel frightened and sick.

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Jon Richardson, It’s Not Me, It’s You

(via checkthemeaning)

I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn’t want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my own psychological vulnerability and my lack of suitability as a companion. Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life.

—Irvine Welsh (via misswallflower)

If you were to press your heart close up against somebody else’s heart eventually your hearts will start beating at the same time. And two little babies in an incubator, their hearts will beat at the same time. Love that. So if you have somebody in your life that is prone to anxiety, like myself, and if you happen to be a calm person, you could come up and hug me heart to heart and my heart hopefully would slow to yours. And I just love that idea. Or maybe yours would speed up to mine. But either way, we’ll be there together.

—Andrea Gibson  (via atomiclanterns)

(Source: fleurishes, via whatusedtobeyours)