"The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough."

- Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann (via wrists)

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"This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something."

- Elizabeth Gilbert (via kari-shma)

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Japanese Wisteria Tunnel

These photos were taken at the Kawachi Fuji Garden, about a four hour drive from Tokyo, but there are wisteria festivals all over Japan, including at the Kameido-Tenjin Shrine, where tourists in the Edo period often visited the famous wisteria; the Wake Wisteria Park, in Wake-cho, Okayama, and at Ashikaga Flower Park, which has three massive wisteria trellises that extend 3,280 feet squared. (Time Out Tokyo has a list of additional notable wisteria around the city worth visiting.)

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"And I hide because there’s more to me than what you see and I’m not sure you’d like the rest. I know that sometimes, I don’t like the rest."

- I Wrote This For You: The Remaining Mirrors (via kari-shma)

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"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."

- Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage (via helplesslyamazed)

I deserve a man who will rub my back until I fall asleep and still be there in the morning when I wake up. So I’ll keep waiting.