to letting your character grow

it's the in between-ness that gets me.

“Someday you’ll find the right person, and you’ll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself. That’s what I think. So don’t settle for anything less. In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.”

—   Haruki Murakami (via writersvineyard)

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aphelia:

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“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”

—   Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (via seabois)

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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”

—   Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina (via seabois)

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“He looked at her the way all women wanted to be looked at by a man”

—   F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby  (via thenocturnals)

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