free

[circular-lines]

Nobody ever left anyone for another person, we leave for ourselves, to be closer to ourselves.

[circular-lines]

Because even if it might not seem like enough, one person giving everything and the other one giving whatever is left of them, like Bukowski said, is still a grand love story.

[understands]

[flowerytale]

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters

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“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, from Terra infirma

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louise glück

[mckitterick]

Pterry's Wisdom #15,234

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one." - Sir Terry Pratchett

[loveletter2you]

“once upon a time” in other languages

korean: “back when tigers used to smoke” (호랑이 담배 피우던 시절에) [x]

czech: “beyond seven mountain ranges, beyond seven rivers” (za sedmero horami a sedmero řekami)

georgian: “there was, and there was not, there was…” (იყო და არა იყო რა, იყო…)

hausa: “a story, a story. let it go, let it come.” [x]

romanian: “there once was, (as never before)… because if there wasn’t, it wouldn’t have been to told” (A fost odată, ca niciodată că dacă n-ar fi fost, nu s-ar mai povesti…)

lithuanian: “beyond nine seas, beyond nine lagoons: (už devynių jūrų, už devynių marių)

catalan: “see it here that in that time in which beasts spoke and people were silent…” (vet aquí que en aquell temps que les bèsties parlaven i les persones callaven…) [x]

turkish: “Once there was, and once there wasn’t. In the long-distant days of yore, when haystacks winnowed sieves, when genies played jereed in the old bathhouse, [when] fleas were barbers, [when] camels were town criers, [and when] I softly rocked my baby grandmother to sleep in her creaking cradle, there was/lived, in an exotic land, far, far away, a/an…* (Bir varmış, bir yokmuş. Evvel zaman içinde, kalbur saman içinde, cinler cirit oynar iken eski hamam içinde, pireler berber [iken], develer tellal [iken], ben ninemin beşiğini tıngır mıngır sallar iken, uzak diyarların birinde…)

[youngestdaughtersyndrome-deacti]

does anyone have the post thats a leonard cohen quote talking about being empty

[youngestdaughtersyndrome-deacti]

nvm found it

[thoughtkick]

“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”

— Maya Angelou

[neckkiss]

I Origins (2014)

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

[youreadarkwizard]

The X-Files  | 1x03 “Squeeze”  (1993)  

[mysteriousartcentury]

Maxmilián Pirner (1854-1924), Somnambulant, 1878, oil on canvas, 157 x 87 cm. National Gallery Prague - Mysterious Art Century Instagram - Facebook - Twitter - Pinterest

[genterie]

Photo by Sergiy Kadulin

Sunset light reflecting on the gate of Kremlin walls in Kazan, Tatarstan. Symbols of day and night, light and dark sides, warm and cold - all exists in the same moment, in one place, non possible to separate and changes all the time by our own view onto it. This is the magic of light. 

[nevver]

[nevver]

But bay it’s cold outside - Remedios Varo

[thehopefulquotes]

“Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco