“What are you thinking?” asks the Star.
“That I don’t need to pretend I’m strong, which is an enormous relief. I used to have a lot of problems with relationships because I thought I knew better than anyone else how to get where I wanted. All my boyfriends hated me for this, and I couldn’t understand why.”
- Paulo Coehlo, The Winner Stands Alone
"If you have an idea of what you want to make, what you were put here to do, then just go and do that."
"Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them."
"What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you’ll always be alright."
— Brian Morton, “Breakable You” (via thatkindofwoman)
(Source: julie911, via thebunnyhole)
"It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. Because, when you know that language, it’s easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it’s in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning."
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist