"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed."
— Ernest Hemingway (via gustafhale)


"Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts."
— Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Stories and Poems (via poneros)


My heart in one minute beats 70 times

and shouts, “I am alive!”

But when I’m with you

it beats a little bit faster,

to 110 times,

and shouts “I am in love!”

As this heart beats I want to protect you

I’m fine with that goal being my reason for living-

Once more, once more,

When we overlap our hearts,

You and I will come to know each other more and more



 If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain;If I can ease one life the aching,Or cool one pain,Or help one fainting robinUnto his nest again,I shall not live in vain. 

 If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.