clear eyes, full hearts

"I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deeper." Seventeen | California.

[sincerelyjoanna-blog-blog]

[forest-tales]

2013 taught me alot about life and giving up

[agirlnamedally]

It’s all terribly cliche, but fear is so often just an indicator that you’re moving past your comfort zone and into territory that will help you grow as a person.

Kara Ready

[hypothes-y]

wait you guys i won a national gold medal for my memoir piece from scholastic arts and writing what i'm going to caRNEGIE HALL

[intwo-the-wild-deactivated20140]

“Once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being normal; you can’t go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.”

Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years  (via intwo-the-wild)

[lioncourte]

Oh we’re a mess, poor humans, poor flesh—hybrids of angels and animals, dolls with diamonds stuffed inside them. We’ve been to the moon and we’re still fighting over Jerusalem. Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deeper. I didn’t want to write these pages until there were no hard feelings, no sharp ones. I do not have that luxury. I am sad and angry and I want everyone to be alive again. I want more landmarks, less landmines. I want to be grateful but I’m having a hard time with it.

Richard Siken, Spork Editor’s Pages: Black Telephone

[anselelgortsbf-deactivated20140]

"I feel like I didn’t know who I was when I was 15. I don’t feel like you’re who you are for life, not even when you’re 20."

[izyurfimenipaflanyant]

[warmsoftsun]

Sasa Stucin

[murmurrs]

You want everything so much and when you get it it’s over and you don’t give a damn.

Ernest Hemingway, The Garden Of Eden

[mortante-deactivated20140413]

"I’m getting sick of being a ghost no one can hurt me but no one will kiss me either”

[northgang]

[memereve]

[unhappyhippiebirthday]

Go home. Put your best record on. Loud as it’ll play. And with every note, you remember: that’s something that the darkness couldn’t take from you.

Fred Thursday, Endeavour (via vwiola)

[sleepings]

and with this bullet lodged in my chest, covered with your name, I will turn myself into a gun, because it’s all I have, because I’m hungry and hollow and just want something to call my own. I’ll be your slaughterhouse, your killing floor, your morgue and final resting, walking around with this bullet inside me ‘cause I couldn’t make you love me and I’m tired of pulling your teeth.

Richard Siken, Wishbone (via sleepings)

[hypothes-y]

i think i'm obsessed with online shopping and also in love and it's throwing off all my plans and i don't know if i mind

[deactivated6022607-deactivated2]

[hypothes-y]

"My favorite for two reasons:

Keeps me in check. The world is not obligated to care, you can’t always expect that people will, especially when they have their own things and problems and hurt that you are not obligated to care about either. Don’t expect too much from anyone.

The world is not obligated to care, yet sometimes, it still does. And that’s beautiful to me.”

[stonechimneys-deactivated201305]

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Ernest Hemingway