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24 ★ biblically accurate thought daughter

[thesweetiepienovels]

People who recycle and put their trash in their pocket until they find a trash can and people who pick up liter when they see it and people who still cut the six-pack rings so animals don’t get trapped or choke on them and people who move turtles out of the road and people who stop for ducks and geese to cross all have a very special place in my heart. You are so good to this world and earth. I hope you know that.

[sailorbrazil]

thursday..... and i bet you wish you were her

[garbji]

“Cut me. Explore me. Tell me what I meant.”

— Alice Notley, from In The Pines: Poems; “The Black Trailor (A Noir Fiction),” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[heavensghost]

Words by Mary Oliver engraved in rock

[imyselfamstrange]

When Clarice Lispector said “She exists as in dreams. She has no sense of reality. She gets nervous because people are always interrupting her daydreams.” and when Emma Hewitt said “I’m always in a state of trance, I’m not very often in the real world.” and when Louise Glück said “I could live almost completely in imagination.” and when Maggie Stiefvater said “You're made of dreams and this world is not for you," and when Anaïs Nin said “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another.” and also “She is weak before reality. Her life is full of fantasies.” and when -

[exhaled-spirals]

— Anaïs Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart

[flowerytale]

The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923

[sec0ndwind]

I’m so hungry I could eat the gap between what I said and what I meant

[kafk-a]

Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

[diary-of-alice]

pro-tip: your blog is about you. be self-indulgent, self-absorbed, and self-possessed. go all in on your obsessions. this is a work of self-expression, a living monument to your heart.

[ashstfu]

forever in awe of people who pay attention. people who wait for you while you tie your shoes while the others have walked away. when they continue listening intently while the rest of the group stopped listening. noticing your moments of silence when everyone else hasn’t. “this made me think of you” noticing things you never even noticed about yourself. people who say “text me when you get home safe.” people who make you laugh until you cry. childhood friends who keep in touch. people with genuine intentions. people who are soft when the world has given them every opportunity to turn hard. the “let’s get ice cream” at 3am friend. the turn up the music in the car and sing friend. people whose actions match their words. people who make the world feel less chaotic. kindred spirits. the trustworthy and honest. hard workers. good listeners. clear communicators. people who love you for who you are. people who don’t ask you to be anything other than yourself. people who choose you. people who stay.

[eymurn]

The older I get, the more I realize being in a hurry is a terrible way to live your life.

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 27 February 1929, featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. IV, 1927-1931

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

[cleoidus]

borrowed gestures. pencil

[cherryshoota]

[kosmogrl]

everything going downhill but at least there’s still phone in bed time am I right.. ahah am I right

[kosmogrl]