heaven knows

Oleander- '97

[poemswords]

“…Sometimes you don’t have to be mean to hurt someone.”

— R.J. Palacio, Wonder (via books-n-quotes)

[ruinsmami]

put yourself first because people ain’t shit

[poemswords]

“Remember: 5 months is not eternity. 2 months is not eternity. Even if it looks that way now.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath (via the-book-diaries)

[poemswords]

“But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (via philosophyquotes)

[lifeinpoetry]

“I’m someone I’m afraid of.”

— Zaki Ovais, from “Someone I’m Afraid Of,” I Am a Rohingya

[poemswords]

“Sometimes I feel as though there are two me’s, one coating directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when he’s supposed to nod and says what he’s supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and dreams… Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly notice the split, but sometimes it feels as though I’m two whole different people and I could rip apart at any second.”

— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (via books-n-quotes)

[theholygrails]

-diandra

[stephenstilwell-deactivated2021]

“I like you more than planned.”

six words (stephenstilwell)

[wyattwesleywriting]

“I like being alone. I like having no expectations. I like playing music too loud. I like dancing by myself while cooking dinner. I like forgetting the world. But sometimes I get lost there. I don’t like being gone without a guide. I don’t like forgetting a dance step and having no one to remind me what it was. Because there’s some voids music can’t fill and there’s emptiness that expectations chase away. I like being alone, but being lonely, that terrifies me.”

— KJS // Excerpt from the book I’ll never write #116

[poemswords]

[inspiration-and-motivation]

[poemswords]

[olearypoetry]

“I’d be lying if I said you make me speechless the truth is you make my tongue so weak it forgets what language to speak in.”

— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (via rupikaurpoems)

[poemswords]

“A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.”

—   Noam Chomsky (via philosophyquotes)

[olearypoetry]

“It was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.”

— Rupi Kaur (via rupikaurpoems)

[poemswords]

“The less you say, the more your words will matter.”

— Rae Carson, The King’s Guard (via books-n-quotes)

[bnmxfld]