Yellow Submarine

Decided to reuse my Twitter description: I like books and biology and writing and music and films and food and procrastinating! I reblog anything that takes my fancy - this includes lots of pictures of food and attractive men. Sometimes when I'm bored I write diary-esque posts but they're not very interesting. Here's my other Tumblr, all about medicine: http://medicineblogs.tumblr.com/

[pardiswrites]

one day i stopped looking at him like he was the gold  buried in my pockets  and saw him for the stones  that were sinking me  to the river

pardis a. (via pardisa)

[spirituallyminded-deactivated20]

Your heart will fix itself. It’s your mind you need to worry about. Your mind where you locked the memories, your mind where you have kept pieces of the ones that hurt you, that still cut through you like shards of glass. Your mind will keep you up at night, make you cry, destroy you over and over again. You need to convince your mind that it has to let go… because your heart already knows how to heal.

Nikita Gill (via spirituallyminded)

[conscious-love]

No one wants to give-up on someone they love, such as a relative, friend or lover. But, sometimes we are forced to make hard decisions by extraordinary suffering. It’s easy to judge, or say, “never give-up,” until you have been there. Eventually, you begin to realize that life is too short and your powers to teach, influence or heal are limited. You finally accept that their emptiness, pain and dysfunction requires more than you have to give. You can’t hand your whole life and soul to someone who doesn’t even care about their own. Letting go is an excruciating heartbreak; mourning the death of what once was. If you did let someone go, and you still have guilt, it’s time to forgive yourself and begin to heal. If it is time to let someone go, for their sake, or for yours, then this may be your confirmation.

Bryant McGill (via i-am-strong-all-on-my-own)

[pardiswrites]

it took me a long time to admit this to myself  but i realize now  that every time  i forgave you  for the same mistakes  i was forgiving you  for knowing better and still choosing to hurt me and that is unforgivable

pardis a. (via pardisa)

[to-the-light-house]

Sometimes giving a person a second chance is like giving them an extra bullet for their gun because they missed you the first time.

Anonymous (via to-the-light-house)

[coffee-crinkled-pages]

How to know when to leave The one you think you love: Leave When you’re staying out of fear And not affection and Leave When when yesterday is more enticing Than any imaginable tomorrow and Leave When there’s more comfort in cold metal Than in the person lying next to you. The past does matter But so do you And don’t let a relationship Become a form of self-harm.

M.S. (via coffee-crinkled-pages)

[healingsoft-deactivated20241218]

i. i miss the nights spent with you half-drunk and slurring vulgarities, telling me secrets that shouldn’t have come anywhere near your lips. those times felt a little like flying and a little like falling, like skydiving without a parachute that you never really wanted anyways. ii. i can’t stop soaking my mind in the compliments, even if they were backhanded, or lies, or more about my body than they were me. attention for the right reasons packed its bag and left long ago; love without lust isn’t something to be expected here. iii. nine months ago i told you to stop getting high and i’m beginning to see that i am more hypocritical now than ever, that i’m smoking our memories and floating ten feet above the ground. iv. i can’t tell the difference between my heartbeat and a heartbreak and i’m pretty sure it’s because of you. v. (it’s definitely because of you.)

withdrawal symptoms (catherine w // sempiternalwriting)

[apikaliaa]

I was your cure; But you were my disease. I was saving you; But you were killing me.

Unknown // excerpt from a love story that doesn’t exist #27 (via apikaliaa)

[yourplasticheart-blog]

How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego.

Amanda Torroni (via yourplasticheart)

[dokujin]

[palm-3s-islands]

palm-3s-islands.tumblr.com

[newblogisjacindaelena]

Beauty and the Beast || Scenery

[creatingaquietmind-deactivated2]

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

Elizabeth Gilbert (via saintofsass)

[madgirlf]

1. You will look for love in all the wrong places. In a pack of cigarettes. Underneath the tires of an airplane. In the arms of a boy who is scared of your fire. In the eyes of one who lights it. Between the pages of an encyclopedia. At the bottom of the wine bottle. In the concrete tunnels beneath your city. This is okay. It’s called trial and error for a reason. Hint: it’s a lot closer than you think. 2. When you find out who you are, your first instinct will be to fight- to rip the poetry from your veins and tear your notebooks into shreds. You will do these things and the words will still come pouring out of you. Give them a home. 3. You will kiss boys who are mean to you. You’ll even think you love a few of them and it’ll take years but when you finally leave, they’ll think they love you too. Keep walking. 4. When you get your first F in college, you will drive to your parents’ house and cry in their laps. Your grandmother will call you stupid for crying over a test and remind you that her sister is dying in the next state over. Kiss her cheek and sleep with your door open. It helps with her nightmares. 5. You will go back to someone who treated you badly and he will treat you badly again. It will not kill you. Don’t you give him that power. Your name means warrior, means fortress, means determination. Cry it out, scream from your rooftop, fill an entire notebook with curse words. Then keep going. 6. You will walk into some places and feel the weight of the world slip from your shoulders. These are called safe places. They are few and far between. Covet them. 7. You will get drunk and scream at your ex-boyfriend on your birthday. Your friends will join you. This is how you know you will never let them go. 8. You will experience moments of sublime happiness. Tiny glimpses of ecstasy. They are meteors. Bask in their light. 9. It will take you 20 years to learn to love yourself. Some days, you will forget how. On these days, call your mother. Go home and look at old pictures. Drink tea with lots of honey in it. Spend time with people who remind you who you are. Be patient with yourself. It gets easier with every passing year. 10. You will fight the good fight. And sometimes you will lose. Sometimes you’ll even think that you have no fight left. On nights like this, watch a silly movie and go to sleep. Wake up and put your gloves back on.

Fortesa Latifi - the poet talks to herself. and to you. and you. and you. (via madgirlf)

[thevoyaging]

River House, Donzy, Burgundy, France

photo via nanne

[filipcool-deactivated20150321]

need this

[owls-n-elderberries]

[blackfashion]

Beyoncé, Jay Z, Rihanna, And Kanye West collector’s edition covers for Ebony Magazine June 2014 Issue

“In celebration of Black Music Month, EBONY magazine pays tribute to the industry’s leaders, pioneers and game changers. Inside the June issue, EBONY honors both the present-day success stories and the giants who paved the way. The issue is a four-cover series, with Beyoncé, Jay Z, Kanye West and Rihanna gracing the covers as a salute to their unprecedented impact on Black music. #EBONYmag” 

[blvckexcelllence-deactivated202]

I want all 4

[saatchiart]

Oleg Oprisco creates dreamy, surreal photos using only a film camera - without digital manipulation.