Not all those who wander are lost.

I am a miracle. Brain and nerve and bounding heart.

[mevil]

[wildchildskyhigh]

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[geceyedusenkadeh]

[whendidmythoughtsgocrazy]

Sometimes, it isn’t the one who takes your breath away, it’s the one that reminds you to breathe.

k.b. // by jennifer johnson

[vi0lent-smile]

@d0e-eyed-des you literally need to be reminded to breathe

[thepersonalquotes]

my biggest toxic trait is i know how to love but i don't know how to believe i'm loved

[symphonyoflovenet]

Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

[symphonyoflovenet]

I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.

C. S. Lewis

[emotionalwords]

normalize to distance yourself once you feel unwanted.

[strykerlancer-deactivated202405]

— David Foster Wallace , from “The Pale King.”

[strykerlancer-deactivated202405]

“Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder.”

— Virginia Woolf, from “The Waves.”

[strykerlancer-deactivated202405]

“I’m searching for a phrase that will release everything that’s pent up in me.”

— Henry Miller, in a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953.

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

For several days afterwards too

[xanaxfarts]

Fruit-Shaped Bus Stops (1990) Location: Nagasaki, Japan

[stuckinapril]

are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

[stuckinapril]

this is not just "look out the window and sigh" longing. i'm talking you're at the grocery store and you're suddenly hit w a wave of grief bc you don't have it. you don't have whatever it is you ache so badly to have. you go about your everyday life and yet it throbs under your skin moment by moment, almost as though it has a life of its own. that's the kind of longing i mean.

[feral-ballad]

Rosario Castellanos, tr. by Magda Bogin, from The Selected Poems of Rosario Castellanos; "On the edge of pleasure"

[classycookiexo]