Maria

this one's for you 💝🍄🍁

[whendidmythoughtsgocrazy]

You have to keep making new goals so it won’t be the end when you’re done with one. Think of “because I reached this goal, I can probably reach a higher one” and make new goals. You have to make new reasons for yourself to keep going.

k.b. // lee know from stray kids

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, "Purdah"

[weltenwellen]

Victoria Chang, from "The Beach, 1964", With My Back to the World

[kosmogrl]

[lunamonchtuna]

— Mary Lambert, Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across; "You Are with the Wrong Person" (via lunamonchtuna)

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[inkpressedpetals]

[at-lolevad]

Sometimes, something happens to you and you never recover from it .

[at-lolevad]

You are enough.

And I’m proud of you.

Because you’re still here.

Still trying.

Still you.

That’s more than enough.

[at-lolevad]

you really do get over it on a random day.

[at-lolevad]

[thesefallenembers]

the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.

if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.

[petals-and-parchment]

“I will not stay, not ever again – in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself.”

— Glennon Doyle, Untamed

[radiantdanvers]

"Tell her she's the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart."

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”

“Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.”

[smilesandblues]

"A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated."

A thousand splendid suns

by Khaled Hosseini

[3rabbit]

When A Thousand Splendid Suns said like compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman; and when it said, a man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you; and when it said, I will follow you to the ends of the world; when it said it always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk; when it said And I wrote you. Volumes. Volumes; and when it said but the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her; when it said One last time, Mariam did as she was told; and when it-

[at-lolevad]

This book ! 💗💗😭😭

[belamercado]

"In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others, who will never let on that she too had sorrows, disappointments, dreams that have been ridiculed. A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her."

— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns