May 2013
I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Falling in love with yourself is as beautiful as any experience of love is. It’s...
– Kovie Biakolo, Falling In Love With Yourself (via sister-bell)
run-down-verses:
I changed for you and lost you when you realized you liked the old me better
I tried to change back but could not remember the person that I was so you stayed gone
I called you once and asked you to tell me who I was when we met but you hung up
I would miss me but I don’t know who the person is I should miss
So I’m now and forever a lost and wandering nobody
magnezone:
draw things on my back with your finger so i can fall asleep/ in love with you
I said never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The...
– Iain S. Thomas, Intentional Dissonance (via illusionsvk)
I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision,...
– Janet Finch (via illusionsvk)
Two people who were once very close can
without blame
or grand betrayal...
– Warsan Shire (via erraticintrovert)
The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.
– Jonathan Carroll (via hellanne)
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In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived,...
– Buddha (via c-oquetry)
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull...
– Virginia Woolf, from Selected Essays (via lonur)
Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quiet valid sensation. I realized, in...
– Fernando Pessoa (via silentandgray)
There was always the hunger,
The death of small things
Somewhere in your body
– Thomas James, from “Two Aunts” (via awritersruminations)
Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have...
– Maya Angelou (via creatingaquietmind)
I.
When I was trying to quit smoking
and we drank white wine from Mason jars,...
– All That’s Left To Tell, Clementine von Radics (via philo-sofia)
Whatever you desire is already connected in some way to who you are and what you...
– Ralph Marston (via creatingaquietmind)
Rules my Grandma's Psychiatrist gave her in 56'
Get some cheap dishes and break them when you get upset.
Learn how to say “NO” and don’t feel guilty about it
Buy something frivolous for yourself once in awhile, like a new hat.
Never again do anything you don’t want to do.
dreamnoises:
eventually it will be better but it will still hurt like slow burning & even though you know it will get better…when you’re in it you never see that light.
Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The...
– Marjorie Celona; “Y” (via mirroir)
It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this...
– Hugh Laurie (via shelbyisms)
Don’t save something for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special...
– Thomas S. Monson (via ablogwithaview)
If they don’t need you, it’s okay. You do not live for other people.
– Kyo (via kitsune-)
I don’t know how to grow up, really, or move on. I don’t know how to be all...
– camaraderie
Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate...
– Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (via adieufranz)
There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid...
– Hermann Hesse (via samsaranmusing)
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via biwwfy)
It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it...
– Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing (via larmoyante)
I fall in love all the time. With music, film, poetry. A smile. A bum. But...
– Benedict Smith (via benedictsmith)
The unfed mind devours itself.
– Gore Vidal (via larmoyante)
I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.
– Lin, Shantaram (via kitsune-)
Thinking of you, one thinks of what you could have become. You were, and you...
– Edouard Levé, Suicide, trans. Jan Steyn (via proustitute)
There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some...
– Haruki Murakami, A Slow Boat to China (via 13neighbors)
Oh shut up. Every time it rains, it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you...
– I Wrote This For You (via emotional-algebra)