“Name the five most important things in your life. My list would’ve gone a little something like this: job, apartment, friends, money, and clothes.
My list was filled with frivolous things. I mean, who says shoes as one of the most important things in their life?
Me.”


-Enshrine

We’re all fragile, filled with insecurities and worry, and we shouldn’t be judged on how we behave in our darkest hour because it’s never pretty.

We should be judged on our life as a whole—the way we love, how we treat others—and not how we act when our world is crumbling around us.

I read this article once that said the quickest way to get a dude to stop hitting on you was to say that you’re with another guy, because men respect other men more than they respect a woman saying no.

If she could bottle that smile and sell it, she’d make a million dollars.

Every person I once considered a friend is now an enemy, and the word “trust” has been ripped from my vocabulary.

Doubt is an ugly word, for an ugly feeling.

“Choosing between dull and dishonest is like being asked whether you want to be shot or stabbed.”

And as if I didn’t know already, I’m sure of it now: men suck.

Life was hard sometimes and there was no book or movie that could prepare you for how harsh it could be.
Except maybe that zombie television show where everyone died. That was pretty accurate.

It’s what you do when you’ve experienced the worst of the worst. You seek out people like you…people worse off than you…and you use them to make yourself feel better about the terrible things that have happened to you.

All books come to an end, she ended hers before the ink ran out.

And so I came to realize, it wasn't the end of the world, it was simply the end of us.

She loved reading because it allowed her to cry over someone else’s sadness when she could no longer identify her own

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

People assume strength is loud. In reality, strength is silent. It is resilience, the will to never surrender your dignity. And sometimes, the only person who knows strength exists inside you is you.

That’s how the universe works: it gives you the one thing you said you’d never want.

Some people can only appreciate the good in their lives when they’ve had a taste of what it’s like to suffer

They say when you assume that you make an ass out of you and me