[serratedpens]

Eden Robinson, “Writing Prompts for the Broken-hearted”

[surqrised]

“And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

[surqrised]

“I will never be enough for you, until I search inside and find the way, to be enough for me.”

— William Chapman

[thebookquotes]

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

— Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

[weltenwellen]

When we stop caring what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. But when we are defined by what people think, we lose the courage to be vulnerable.

Brené Brown, Rising Strong

[thebookquotes]

Why wasn't friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn't it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

[nicollekidman]

“Friendship is the most underrated relationship in our lives … It remains the one relation not bound by law, blood, or money — but an unspoken agreement of love.”

— Hanya Yanagihara (via eatmyson)

[weltenwellen]

Jenny Slate, On Love, Loneliness, & Giant Dogs

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, “Departure”, Poems 1962 - 2012

[weltenwellen]

“I felt alone in the world, I tried to escape in tears. Yet my attitude in the face of suffering was still one of bewilderment.”

— Clarice Lispector, ed. by Benjamin Moser and tr. by Katrina Dodson, The Complete Stories

[soracities]

when jeff buckley said “my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder” and when hozier said “i slithered here from eden just to sit outside your door” and when lorde said “blow all my friendships to sit in hell with you”…! 

i am just..abandonment of paradise for the sake of the beloved because paradise is the beloved…that’s the mood for tonight, babey. that’s love, babey.

[theexorcistlives]

When Jim Steinman wrote “if I gotta be damned, you know I wanna be dammed dancing through the night with you”!

[anxietyproblem]

[weltenwellen]

David Budbill, from "A Poem about Pain“, Tumbling toward the End

[scenograph]

The Art of Kiki’s Delivery Service (2006 art book)

[pastperfectcontinuous]

people always want to say “oh I worked hard to get where I am” … but in reality no one works as hard as the people who are exploited, the people who face chronic back pain after working twelve hours a day with poor salaries, the people in factories and the people with jobs that no one views as “glamorous and successful” , the people who are too tired to do anything on their days off because of how they exhaust themselves when they’re at work. people generally see these jobs as a consequence for not going to college and that kind of manipulation makes me want to die!

[eyeheartfarms]

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[babyfoxcollectionthings]

Island