A Collection of Quotes That I Really Like

Does anyone else have a serious Pinterest problem? I could spend HOURS going through it. Here are some of my favorite quotes that I found through Pinterest :)

"I never had a chance to be soft. I was always bloody knuckles and shards of glass. 

I wanted people to be afraid of hurting me."

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women; kitchen of lust, /bedroom of grief, /bathroom of apathy./ Sometimes, the men-they come with keys, / and sometimes, the men-they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, from "The House"

"Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter"

-African Proverb

"I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people."

-Virginia Woolf, from A Passionate Apprentice

"I think about dying but I don't want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here in this metaphorical bubble or existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it."

-Matt Healy

"I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your drinks. How you decorate your home. Or party. The way you write your grocery list. The food you make. How your handwriting looks. And the way you feel"

"In the fields, she topped and took a deep breath of the flower-scented air. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a love, wiser than a book. And for a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to absorb its wild enchantment."

-Boris Pasternak

"My darling, he is just a boy.

How can he possibly begin to appreciate the constellations you leave in your wake, or the stardust in your bones, when he has yet to realize just what it means to be in love with a girl like you?"

-Nakita Gill