stay gold.

"I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much." - Sandra Cisneros

[makinginfinity]

[juansendizon]

Allow yourself to love. Allow yourself to suffer. Allow yourself to change. And allow yourself to move on.

Juansen Dizon (via juansendizon)

[afadthatlastsforever]

Some people are magic, others are just the illusion of it.

Beau Taplin • T h e  I l l u s i o n i s t  (via afadthatlastsforever)

[wildguess]

sad? go buy a basil plant. you will still be sad but you’ll be able to make pesto in a couple months

[rachaeldee]

[quotemadness]

If you break the little promises, you’ll break big ones.

Cormac McCarthy (via quotemadness)

[difficult]

You can’t just touch my soul and leave.

(via seduction)

[apothecium]

[3blush]

[quotemadness]

I am not a singer but I will sing. I am not your lover but I would love you still.

Samantha M. (via quotemadness)

[golden-notes]

the next time i love someone, i will have loved myself first.

and i will be a better lover for it.

it will be a greater love for it.

[golden-notes]

the fact that the universe has been around for millions of years and will continue to be around for a lot more, yet somehow we both ended up in this same earth, this same lifetime, the same country, and even the same room is incredible. we are two specks of dust. we are nothing, yet we are everything that matters. how can our souls not be connected?

[lifeinpoetry]

In spite of the snow, nothing is beautiful,

Kathy Fagan, from “Poem With Its Heart Buried Under the Floorboards,” published in The New York Times (via lifeinpoetry)

[stefanieshank]

[quotemadness]

Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here, and don’t give a damn what anyone thinks.

Christina Yang (via quotemadness)

[lifeinpoetry]

What are we, after & in between questions? / Bouts of non-belief?

Terrell Jamal Terry, from “Laboratories,” published in Nightjar Review (via lifeinpoetry)

[simply-quotes-deactivated202002]

This is like the calm after the storm. Everything has settled, and even though it left destruction in its wake, you know the worst is over.

Kasie West, The Distance Between Us (via simply-quotes)