This Is How I Cope

[darkacademic42]

"There comes a time in your life when you come across a person who is a deep breath personified. Someone you can laugh until you cry with. Someone you can pour your heart out to and you know they'll hold it gently and without judgement. Someone who knows how to melt away your stress. Someone who challenges you yet handles you with care. Someone who reminds you of your strength at your weakest points and you believe them. Someone who celebrates you and sings your praises, even when you're not around. Someone who softens your heart when things get tough. But would go to war for you in a heartbeat. Someone who you can share your stories with, deepening your connection with every page. Someone who would never allow you to settle because their faith in you is unwavering. Someone you feel you've known in a past life and that you'd find in every lifetime. Someone you could spend your entire life thanking and it would never be enough. Thank you for being my someone my safe space in human form. If I could wish anything for anyone, it would be to have someone like you." -Unknown

[darkacademic42]

"Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness. There is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against 'losing control' of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.

[darkacademic42]

"Do not borrow grief from the future" but what if i can already see the headlights? i can hear the humming, i cannot ignore it. you will be gone. i will lose you. that is a certainty that has awaited me. i am nowhere near ready. -@eternaldroplets

[darkacademic42]

"I will not water myself down to make me more digestible for you. You can choke."

[darkacademic42]

"Omg you remembered?" Did you know that if you cut me up and looked into my heart you would find a small red door that opens into a room plastered with everything you have ever said to me and its all covered in glitter and fairy lights and paper stars. so yeah, I did remember. -@nwromantiqs

[darkacademic42]

"My fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. i am always ready to leave."

-Fatima Aamer Bilal

[darkacademic42]

My Boyfriend about International Women's Day:

"Yeah women deserve recognition. For real. Shoutout to all the strong women."

*hesitates*

"And shit shoutout to the weak women too."

[darkacademic42]

"Ladies, imagine this. It's 15 years from now, and you have no kids. You're the cool wine aunt that occasionally comes back to the country for a brief visit before leaving for another long, exotic vacation. You have no commitments, and a suspicious amount of money."

-@emtreas

[darkacademic42]

"All sins are attempts to fill voids."

-Simone Weil

[darkacademic42]

"All my grief says the same thing: this isn't how it's supposed to be. this isn't how it's supposed to be. and the world laughs. holds my hope by the throat. says: but this is how it is"

[darkacademic42]

"Marriage. More good women have been lost to marriage than to war. Famine, disease, and disaster. You have talent, darling. Don't squander it."

-Cruella de Vil

[darkacademic42]

"One time when I was a teenager an adult said to me "you know, we do talk about you when you're not there" and I never recovered"

-m_eye_nd

[darkacademic42]

"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all of the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited." -Jorge Luis Borges

[darkacademic42]

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." -Oscar Wilde

[darkacademic42]

"I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love." -Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[darkacademic42]

Your handwriting. The way you talk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary. -Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

[darkacademic42]

"I've gotten so good about not flinching at the sound of your name that people don't know I'd throw myself mouth-open into the ocean for the chance to drown somewhere you might see it." -Trista Mateer, "Baggage", from Honeybee