#2

[palatial-monstrosity]

the self care industry will sell you face masks and teas and whatnot so i'm here to remind you not to forget the most important self care activity which is masturbation

[metaphorformetaphor]

This is our land, and the sky is real not a metaphor, and high as our hopes. He says to me: ‘Is June a memory?’ and I say: ‘It is a wound bleeding acutely still, even though its victim says: “I have forgotten the pain.”’

— Mahmoud Darwish, from “The return of June,” A River Dies of Thirst. (Archipelago Books, 2009)

[petaltexturedskies]

I want to lie down like a tired child and weep away this life and my diary shall receive me on its downy pillow. Most children do not know what they cry for; nor do l, altogether.

Virginia Woolf, from Virginia Woolf: The Complete Works

[ashstfu]

no but you know what would be nice? experiencing the kind of happiness that doesn’t turn out to be a lesson that I have to mourn over for at least 3 months

[ashstfu]

i have to be the loneliest girl in the world for reasons unknown to me

[fionaapplerocks]

Joan of Arc by John Everett Millais vs Fiona Apple by Joe McNally

[archbudzar]

what’s it gonna take

[metaphorformetaphor]

“As for me, I go on. Alone now. Forever alone.”

—

Clarice Lispector, from “Obsession,” The Complete Stories ( New Directions, 2015)

[rodrickheffeley]

this is still the greatest season opening in history of television

[ashstfu]

i love pasta and bread and ignoring responsibilities

[axetofall]

I mean yeah I carry a sadness that exhausts my will to live like a leach on my heart but I’m basically fine

[angeprovocateur]

“I act and react, and suddenly I wonder, ‘Where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?’”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals (via loveage-moondream)

[harpersternupdates]

cursed to forever, when at a cafe or bar or whatever, be the one who is disappointed when people start being like hm i think i should get going…. i think we should stay here together forever

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

[recomvery]

Being slow in life is fine. Taking longer to figure life out than others is not a bad thing. Lots of super successful people were late bloomers, who knows what amazing things you could accomplish once you heal more.

[ashstfu]

god’s strongest soldiers are girls who are constantly overwhelmed by everything. and also girls on the first day of their period