I love art, literature, novels and BTS ♡

[thesirensense]

Your self respect has to be greater than your desire to be loved.

[djglory]

*gun shot*

[free-my-mindd]

[catalisst]

Self - listen up!!

[paper-wounds]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

My advice to you is this: Commit some bright, brave sins while you have time.

– Judith Tate O'Brien

[mournfulroses]

Julia de Burgos, from a poem titled "That You Love Me," featured in Song of the Simple Truth: Poems

[misandry-blogging]

"In 'A Woman's Place' (BBC1) the executive producer was a man, the producer was a man, the cameramen were men, the film editor was a man, the dubbing mixer was a man, the commentary was spoken by a man. Oh, God, who is also a man, it makes me tired."

Nancy Banks-Smith, TV review, Guardian, 28th January, 1970

[paper-wounds]

[paper-wounds]

[academic-vampire]

I am so thankful that books & reading exist

[eymurn]

In your 20s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

[svdaily]

Not even against yourself.

[theambitiouswoman]

At all.

[lunamonchtuna]

to be seen without performing. to be heard without screaming. to be missed without disappearing. to be enough without proving it. to be held without falling apart. to be understood without explaining. to be wanted without conditions. to be. to be.

[exitwound]

The experience of wanting to live is actually extremely painful and possibly excruciating and possibly so bad that the body muffles it and renders it an inaccessible feeling. I know because i just touched it and it electrocuted me

[starlightacademia]

— Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

[lifeinpoetry]

In a high school history class, white children raised their eyebrows when I raised my voice.

I don’t know what they thought I was capable of; I wish I was more capable of it.

— Zaina Alsous, from “Violence,” A Theory of Birds: Poems

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

From Waiting for This Story to End Before I Begin Another by Jan Heller Levi (via hush-syrup)

[biracy]

[Text ID: All my stories are about being left, all yours about leaving. So we should have known. End ID]

[zegalba]

The Caring Hand Sculpture, located in Switzerland.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— maplepecanpastry