hopeless optimist

Caught between a strong mind and a fragile heart somewhere between trying to live my life and run from it

[gothish]

Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Montréal

[laraiara]

“…and the weight of the earth is pressed to my ribs.”

— Virginia Woolf, from The Waves (via daydreaming-wildflower)

[half-a-corpse-half-a-poet]

— Franz Kafka

[metamorphesque]

The Pomegranate Trees, William Saroyan

[fragilecreation]

maybe in another life we would have ended up together. maybe in another life

[fragilecreation]

[fragilecreation]

so what do humans do past expiration date

[perfeqt]

“Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you.”

— C. Kennedy

[remanence-of-love]

[remanence-of-love]

[old-school-romantics]

— George R.R. Martin

[vanish]

[psikonauti]

Vladimir Tretchikoff (Russian,1913-2006)

Dying Swan II, 1951

Oil on canvas

[stay-close]

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

[recaption]

Zerkalo (1975)

[as-all-else-failed-x-deactivate]

[coffeebirbsdarkacademia]

“It’s March. I open the window and spring floats in, kisses me on the nose. I have waited so long- and now the Sun is washing the world in yellow, and now the seeds sprout green in the dirt, and now the trees are budding and ready to bloom- and it was all so worth it”

— Schuyler Peck, Worth the Wait