[stay-close]

“If someone makes you feel, let them.”

— Reyna Biddy

[b-lule]

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”

David Foster Wallace

[stay-close]

“It’s hard to dance with the devil on your back, so shake him off.”

— Florence and the Machine, Shake it out

[elizabethanism]

P.S. Franz Wright  

I close my eyes and see

a seagull in the desert, high, against unbearably blue sky.

There is hope in the past.

I am writing to you all the time, I am writing

with both hands, day and night.

[b-lule]

[abiding-in-peace]

Ravenous Butterflies·  “The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” Alan Bennett Harold Harvey

[lunchboxpoems]

[lunchboxpoems]

[opcion]

[thebookquotes]

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

— Aldous Huxley,  Music at Night and Other Essays

[naturaekos]

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

—

[b-lule]

Love

[puppiestotherescue]

[vladimir-nabokov-official]

Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children. They can let themselves age naturally and without embarrassment, actively protesting and disobeying the conventions that stem from this society’s double standard about aging. Instead of being girls, girls as long as possible, who then age humiliatingly into middle-aged women, they can become women much earlier – and remain active adults, enjoying the long, erotic career of which women are capable, far longer. Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth.

Susan Sontag, ‘The Double Standard of Aging’ (1972)

[motivationsforlife]

[theclassyissue]

[just-shower-thoughts]

Hearing your favourite song on the radio is always better than hearing it on your playlist