October Rust

“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together...”

[laundryandtaxes]

One important thing to remember in life: Do not coddle men. Do not do their work for them. Do not perform uncredited labor for them, including intellectual labor. Do not bend over backwards to help them. Do not tell them they are good at things they are bad at. Do not smile at them when you don’t want to. Do not laugh at their terrible jokes or stroke their egos or let them think they are better than you when odds are good that they are almost definitely not. Do not even deal with men whose presence bothers you when you can get away from them/when you aren’t regularly forced to be near them for things like work. Do not include men in your life who don’t deserve to be in it any time that you can avoid it at all.

[crumbargento]

Wuthering Heights - William Wyler - 1939 - USA

[bookville]

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”

— Louise Glück, Nostos. (via askios)

[voirlvmer]

“November is a hinge in the year, and the door gets opened to ghosts.”

— Nina MacLaughlin, from “On the First of November, the Ghosts Arrive”, The Paris Review

[heavensghost]

From Why be happy when you could be normal by Jeanette winterson

[educationbybeauty]

maybe if you bundled yourself up and went for a walk out in the cold then came back inside with rosy cheeks and cool skin and warmed yourself up with a nice warm cup of herbal tea with honey maybe then you'd calm down

[lesbianirl]

if a girl is reading a really interesting book she shouldn't have to go to work. she's expanding her mind and bettering herself and her employers should understand that

[funeral]

“The classics have a way of saving you the trouble of prolonged experiences. You don’t have to go out and buy pop psychology self-help books. When you read the classics in the humanities, you become aware that the big ideas have been around a long time, despite the fact that they are often served up today in modern psychological ‘explanations’ of human action as novel and ‘scientific’.”

— James Stockdale, Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot

[flowerytale]

Mary Oliver, from “We Should Be Well Prepared”, Red Bird

[petaltexturedskies]

Make a tea of rosebuds, drink it directly before going to bed, and remember your dreams.

Scott Cunningham, from Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

“what if the house was haunted” what if the house WASNT haunted. what if your continual presence there is what corrupts. what if you are what haunts this house

[vampurrring]

I love showers I love baths I love washing my hair i love soap and bubbles and steam and sweet smelling lotions and soft skin and water droplets and

[notbecauseofvictories]

A customer contacted our team with questions, and then finished their email with: "I am daunted by the complexities and unknowns." I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.

[greelin]

something genuinely insane about going somewhere and getting to feel “i had some of the worst years of my life here” and “i was loved here, once” simultaneously.

[petaltexturedskies]

The secret of being happy consists of knowing how to enjoy yourself—enjoy being at table, in bed, enjoy standing up, sitting down, enjoy the nearest ray of sunshine, the slightest bit of landscape: in other words, love everything. Thus it follows that to be happy you must already be so there's no bread without leavening.

Gustave Flaubert, from a notebook entry written c. September 1839

[heavensghost]

to heal the wound you first have to stop touching it

[morin-sane]