[girlofdogs]

sometimes i think about how constellations are an entirely man-made construct and don’t actually exhist inherently in nature. i mean, the universe just gave us stars, and we saw art and myths and stories in them. the capacity that humans have for seeing purpose in the incidental makes me realize just how lonely we are on this planet, desperately searching for meaning elsewhere in the universe.

[bellisvintage]

[cerceos-deactivated20160308]

[stay-close]

I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

— Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

[perrfectly]

“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”

— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook  (via perrfectly)

[aesterea-archived]

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”

— Virginia Woolf, from ‘The Waves’ (via derangedrhythms)

[junebugjules]

when anne carson wrote “to feel anything deranges you. to be seen feeling anything strips you naked.” and when gillian flynn wrote “sometimes i think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom.” and when sylvia plath wrote “but please, don’t ask me who i am. a passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?” and when virginia woolf wrote “i’m sick to death of this particular self. i want another.”

[louandreasalome-deactivated2021]

[perrfectly]

“The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person’s soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.”

— Keith Miller (via perrfectly)

[odonianpoet]

[ivoryandforest]

Abbaye de Beauport, Paimpol France.

[makkleyn]

[emekcihalayi]

[weltenwellen]

Brené Brown, Daring Greatly

[snapessecretdiary]

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[marrogerson]

“In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person’s soul from the inside. No other art form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book, we find ourselves slightly altered as human beings. Novels change us from within.”

— Donna Tartt, in this 2013 interview by Laurie Grassi for Chatelaine (via boykeats)

[perrfectly]