[aidashakur]

you absolutely must choose yourself this time

[sunshinealwaysshines]

And everytime

[nsstym]

[lifeinpoetry]

I am, in most parts, made / entirely of longing.

— Saddiq Dzukogi, from Book Three, Bakandamiya

[quotespile]

“As we talked I realized she wanted many things at the same time, and that kept her in a permanent state of dissatisfaction.”

— Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

[lavaditto]

unfortunately I’m not nonchalant, I will set you on fire

[enyafans4communism]

fuck, marry, kill: the wound that won’t heal, the past you can’t undo, the ghost that keeps returning

[achillesinhighheels]

[kosmogrl]

[pareisakti]

How I'm dealing with everything tbh

[eymurn]

Oh! The intimacy of adopting each other’s vocabulary.

[eli-zab3th]

"Being open about who you are can be a little scary, but I think that after you’ve explored your first dungeon, or been hounded through a forest by an unknown threat, you begin to worry less about the approval of others and more about whether you remembered to bring a torch."

- Once Upon a Tome, Oliver Darkshire

[kosmogrl]

margaux paul

[djglory]

im well aware, but im also delusional as fuck so its a balance fr

[girlfictions]

Ada Limón, from Calling Things What They Are (The Hurting Kind)

[metamorphesque]

Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo

[grubloved]

i'm listening to gathering moss, by robin wall kimmerer, and she is talking about a very odd job she was consigned to do, where an eccentric millionaire recuited her to consult on a "habitat restoration". when she arrives, the job they actually want her to do is to tell them how to plant mosses on the rocks in his garden. he wants it to look like a specific, beautiful wild cliff in the woods nearby, with centuries-old beds of moss growing thick and strong. she tells him it is impossible. such a thing would take decades to accomplish.

later, she is called back to look at the progress of the moss garden and is amazed by the thick, well-established mosses. how did they do it? she asks.

then they take her out to the woods and show her that they have been blasting huge chunks of rock out of the cliff, packaging them in burlap, and moving them to the owner's garden.

[kcsmall]

This quote really got me: "The owner is a man who loves mosses, and the exercise of power. I have no doubts of his sincerity in wishing to protect them from harm, once they conformed to his landscape design.  But I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the sovreignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and diminishing the possessed. If he truly loved mosses more than control, he would have left them alone, and walked each day to see them."

- Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

[thedankmemes]

[elemnv]

mia xara

[dawn4ngel]

[bbcwhereareyou]

[punchholesinthesky]