my words are unerring tools of destruction

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew

[disgustingexhibit]

“If the Greeks knew despair, they always did so through beauty.”

— Albert Camus (via baeronism)

[lxcuna]

“tell me what you ever hoped to achieve trying to fly with cracks in your glass wings”

— excerpt from a poem i wrote in high school english | l.x.

[acotars]

100 days of character posters (45/100)

↳ If you can’t be unafraid, be afraid and happy.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

My heart breaks a little bit because there is endless beauty in sadness and vice versa. There is just so much sadness and beauty and it is altogether captivating and unbearable

[purplebuddhaproject]

“There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood.”

— John Irving (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can’t find the right words.”

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written c. November 1912

[lifeinpoetry]

I think to be a poet is a very beautiful thing Because a poet wants to be right but does not want to win And that is a very strange thing That is a strange and beautiful thing

— Ariana Reines, from A Sand Book

[lannisten]

If I look back I am lost.

[sanellydicarmens]

Jane Austen + favorite literature quotes. 

[daenerya]

#actual love of my life

[aristocats1970-archive]

There are no limits to the stars; their numbers are infinite. Which is precisely why I measure my love for you by them. An amount too boundless to count.

[winchestheart]

Did you miss me?

[bymine]

Noah, unlike his pristine room, always seemed a little grubby. There was something out of place about his clothing, his mostly combed-back fair hair.

[anancientheart]

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

— Rumi

[anancientheart]

“Is that what writing amounts to? The voice your ghost would have, if it had a voice?”

— Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam

[anancientheart]

“Finally, in a low whisper, he said, “I think I might be a terrible person.” For a split second I believed him - I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”

— Miranda July, excerpt from The First Bad Man

[missbard]

sam x evie | the diviners

“One day, Evie O’Neill, you’re gonna fall head over heels for me!”

“Don’t hold your breath!” Evie shouted back.

Sam mimed an arrow through the heart and fell down. Evie laughed in spite of herself. “Idiot.”