“ Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just ­sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.
—Anneli Rufus  (via aubades)

(Source: airplanes, via thechocolatebrigade)

“ Forgetting isn’t enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and again. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.
—Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl (via cavum)

(Source: larmoyante, via losingmyselfagain)