Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it’s unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can’t touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.
by Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage (via helplesslyamazed)(Source: quote-book, via lovebot)
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
by Ernest Hemingway (via kari-shma)
Happiness isn’t what happens when you whistle along, pretending bad things don’t exist… Happiness is earned, like everything else. It’s achieved.
by Marisa de los Santos (via kari-shma)