keep it real, baby

throwin shade won't make you shine

[thevisualvamp]

Bookworm

[becoming-thebest-of-myself]

[free-my-mindd]

[lucidloving]

Kurt Vonnegut, based on John Greenleaf, "Maud Muller" // Whittier // Lang Leav // Erica Jong, Becoming Light: Poems New & Selected // @dvoyd // Matt Haig, The Midnight Library // @ojibwa // magazine clipping, on Bronnie Ware's The Top Five Regrets of the Dying // r.h. // F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Basil and Josephine Stories

[Requested by @alwaysanangel-neveragod]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

- I Guess the Old You is a Ghost (#589: June 25, 2014)

[thesnakeandthemoon]

Art in Gaza

by Banksy

[mournfulroses]

Ada Limón, from "Shelter: A Love Letter to Trees," published in June 2022

[wedarkacademia]

Yesterday I was the Moon by Noor Unnahar

[sandmandaddy69]

[feral-ballad]

Naomi Shihab Nye, from Fuel: Poems; “Hidden”

[Text ID: "If you tuck the name of a loved one / under your tongue too long / without speaking it / it becomes blood"]

[feral-ballad]

Susan Abulhawa, from Against the Loveless World: A Novel

[Text ID: “I knew that, despite everything, I was loved. I was loved hard. At once and forever against the loveless world.”]

[mournfulroses]

Sophocles, from "Electra: A Tragedy," translated by Anne Carson

[kharacore]

jenny holzer

[ad-wills]

[storyofmanythoughts]

“I didn’t care that I was settling for a fraction of a relationship with him when I knew I was deserving of so much more. I was willing to settle for whatever he would give me because a fraction of him was better than nothing at all. “

- Call It What You Want

[quotefeeling]

“Beware of destination addiction: The idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job, or even with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.”

— Unknown

[safe-haven-safe-place]

@artbyastronoht