Quotes – Amethyst’s Archive

paigeypaige19: “I didn’t fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we’d choose anyway. And I’d choose you; inContinue reading

icecreamgems: “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” — George R.R. Martin (via quotemadness)

dreaminganddoubting: “A god steps down from the mountain. He walks through the dark forest. There are wild beasts everywhere in the silent darkness. It must be real. I’m not dreaming. I’m telling the truth. Now I’m in one world, now in the other. I can’t stop it.” — Ingmar Bergman, Through a Glass Darkly (1961)

patronsaintofmonsters: ““We’re all monsters,” I said. “Being a monster is not the same as being a bad person. It just means you’re willing to eat the world if that’s what you have to do to keep yourself alive.”” — Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire), CHIMERA (via sonnywortzik)

dayzea: “Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you―and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing does.” — George Saunders (via mishproductions)

One of the most beautiful and terrifying moments is when you realize that your Path is uniquely yours. No one else can give you answers or tell you what direction you should go. But you have all the power and wisdom within yourself to find those answers. There are secrets to be unlocked that onlyContinue reading

helki-kome: “But don’t forget who you really are. And I’m not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you’re alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed inContinue reading

wnq-anonymous: “I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.” — Douglas Pagels (via wnq-anonymous)

The most odious aspect of goody-goody, I’m-okay-you’re-okay dialogues is their failure to recognize that sometimes you have to scream, slam doors, break furniture, run red lights, and ride the wind to even begin to have the words to describe what is eating you. Michael Ventura (via unmaskingthedivine)

honorthegods: “I feel awe of the gods, I love, I revere, I venerate them, and in short have precisely the same feelings towards them as one would have towards kind masters or teachers or fathers or guardians or any beings of that sort.” — Julian the Philosopher, in “To the Cynic Heracleios"