AGAINST ALL ODDS

Of watercolors, typewritters, handwritings, and poems. ALL I NEED is an anagram of my name. if i know you and you know me and you accidentally found my blog, just forget that you ever found this. or else i'll loathe you to ashes. don't even come back.

[mingdliu-deactivated20210422]

“I think about the hardest moment after you, one of the darkest times of my life; the irony of wanting to tell you about it all when you were the one who put me in that place, and now, I laugh.” “It’s been a while,” you look at me with the same eyes I used to wish would see me. “You can tell me.” “You are no longer that person for me.”

Stories I’ll tell one day #122 by Ming D. Liu

[lonequixote]

Bouquet of Sunflowers (detail) by Claude Monet

(via @lonequixote)

[samicasalguem]

[thelovejournals]

Every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love you teach her to confuse anger with kindness which seems like a good idea till she grows up to trust men who hurt her cause they look so much like you.

Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (via thelovejournals)

[thunderstruck9]

[beaswellgirl]

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

J.D.Salinger, to his daughter (via liebeficktunsalle)

[the-healthy-wife-blog]

[thelovejournals]

I hope they make you happy. That’s what I’ll say.

Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via thelovejournals)

[barfola3000]

[aseaofquotes]

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

[theclassicsreader]

Trying to learn to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say,

T.S. Eliot, from “East Coker” (via theclassicsreader)

[mingdliu-deactivated20210422]

“I think about the hardest moment after you, one of the darkest times of my life; the irony of wanting to tell you about it all when you were the one who put me in that place, and now, I laugh.” “It’s been a while,” you look at me with the same eyes I used to wish would see me. “You can tell me.” “You are no longer that person for me.”

Stories I’ll tell one day #122 by Ming D. Liu (via mingdliu)

[a-hagar]

I don’t believe in grand gestures, I want someone to ask me how my day was, dance with me in the rain, and challenge me to be better.

I’m not asking for much just love me for me // a.h.  (via tender-souls)

[dopelez-deactivated20160716]

I used to think you were the right person at the wrong time but damn was I wrong. You were just the wrong person.

I don’t even know who you are. (via dopelez)

[wordsnquotes]

I write emotional algebra.

Anaïs Nin

[stckwll]

[iwishiwasamoleintheground]

[niktipolos]

The terrible rain: The war poets, 1939-45