[mournfulroses]

Janet Fitch, from her novel titled "White Oleander," originally published in 1999

[touchh-me-not-deactivated202605]

"Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life. What you're not changing, you're also choosing."

- Bruce Lee

[soracities]

Octavio Paz, ‘The House of Glances’ (selected lines), A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)

[quotefeeling]

“You are not a reflection of the people who can’t love you.”

— Caitlyn Siehl

[lovecrumbss]

James Baldwin talking about love

[weltenwellen]

Leila Chatti, "Postcard from Gone"

[typewriter-worries]

[ Text ID:

When you left I walked into the ocean. Not to drown but to be held by something reluctant to let go.

Don't make this bigger than it is, which is big enough to swallow whales and civilizations.

I joined the blue, I was blue.

And when I looked down, I shattered and reformed so many times, you know, I couldn't catch a clear look at myself. ]

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from her novel titled "The Waves," originally published in 1931

[litandlifequotes]

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.

― Carl Sandburg

[perfectquote]

“That’s how you can tell that you’re filling yourself with the wrong things. You use a lot of energy, and in the end, you feel emptier and less comfortable than ever.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

[perfectquote]

“When a flower doesnt bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”

— Alexander Den Heijer

[quotefeeling]

“please don’t touch my heart, unless you plan to stay”

— Unknown

[shisasan]

And if you're not there I will come to you, and find you ... 

26 July 1923 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[nixscriptum]

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, “My Mother Says Kissing a Man Without a Mustache Is Like Eating Eggs Without Salt”, Instructions for Traveling West

[weltenwellen]

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

[perfectquote]

“‘You’re going to be happy’ said life ‘but first I’ll make you strong.’”

— Unknown

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

agonizing over all the time you wasted or lost is useless. it’s gone now. you survived in the only way you knew how. doesn’t your survival deserve some recognition too?

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

like toni morrison said, “sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it’s not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances.”