ad astra per aspera

a;( she / her ) ideas are wilder than memories.

[amyadamsource]

Amy Adams photographed by Boe Marion for So It Goes magazine (2018)

[nobodysflower]

here is your gentle reminder that there are dandelions growing through cracks in the sidewalk. there is a fence lizard on the porch who is growing a new tail. there are trees growing through an abandoned house, branches tearing through the ceiling, ferns carpeting the floor. there is life pushing forward, pushing through. 

[ninzied]

The other day, lying in bed, I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind.

—Rodger Kamenetz, Terra Infirma

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sometimes i get the urge to be really nasty and mean and say mean things and then i go to do it and i cant its like. im too soft. im not punk rock at all. i lied. i lied to you all. i lied on the internet. im not hardcore. im possibly soft grunge but thats about it

[rohie-deactivated20191102]

when marilyn monroe said “i’ve never fooled anyone. i’ve let people fool themselves. they didn’t bother to find out who and what i was. instead they would invent a character for me. i wouldn’t argue with them. they were obviously loving somebody i wasn’t.”

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[ofallingstar]

“She wants to be trapped. She crosses off her possibilities as they vanish. She draws the net in on all sides and then she strangles herself.”

— Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Journals & Notebooks (1947-1963)

[lady-dedlock]

Jane and Elizabeth by Bethany Stancliffe

[gnossienne]

Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat; And Other Clinical Tales (1970)

[theroseandthebeast]

“However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest.”

— Marina Tsvetaeva, from ‘Art in the Light of Conscience: Eight Essays on Poetry’ (via dehanginggarden)

[chewbacca]

Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013 — ) S02E15 | “Hostages”

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“[T]he pine trees are guitars, Strumming, pine-needles fall like sheets of rain … Their voices rise … the chorus of the cane Is caroling a vesper to the stars.”

— Jean Toomer, from “Georgia Dusk,” Cane (W. W. Norton, 1988)

[h-isforhome-deactivated20261708]

i. LOVE  

“Candy Toss,” 2000 | Justine Kurland 

“Women in the Rain,” 2005 | Marina Abramović

“Dairy Queen,” 2000 | Justine Kurland 

ii. FRIENDSHIP  

“Water For The People,” 2020 | Paul D'Amato

“New York,” 1967 | Robert Lebeck

“Water For The People,” 2020 | Paul D'Amato

iii. TOGETHERNESS 

“Forest,” 1998 | Justine Kurland

“Bathers,” 1998 | Justine Kurland 

“Kung Fu Fighters,” 1999 | Justine Kurland 

with quotes from Alice in Borderland, 2020 | Yoshiki Watabe, Yasuko Kuramitsu, Shinsuke Sato

[lonesometrails]

“I wish it need not happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”

—

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

I don’t think there’s any quote more suitable for today (9 November 2016)

[henryscavills]

10 Things I Hate About You (1999) dir. Gil Junger

[frenchsander]

Just make it a good one, eh?

[tritagonists]

“Above all, don’t plant me inside your heart. I’d outgrow you.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from Sonnets to Orpheus. Trans. Stephen Mitchell. (via xshayarsha)