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so don’t tell me how love will rescue me, I was carnivorous about love, I ate love to the ankles, my thighs are gnawed with love

Dionne Brand, excerpt from “Ossuaries III” (via thescurfofworse)

nostalgicjoy

When people sprout these words to you “It’s going to be okay,” call them liars. They’re trying to empathize with you, unknowingly sugarcoating facts about life in hopes of making you feel better. Call them liars. Life is not going to be okay. This is not seeing the glass half-empty; this is throwing away that stupid glass and acknowledging that it was just water in it - no matter how you see it, at the end of the day, it was still just water in a piece of glass. It’s a never-ending, vicious cycle of pain and happiness - one minute, you think you’re happy, then it’s a slap on the face the next minute. That is life. It will set you on fire that you would think you’re in hell already. It will burn you, skin you alive, and mark you with lifelong wounds reaching deep into your bones. It will shove you into a hurricane of agony and grief. It will convey a promise of a tomorrow, but the minute you turn your back, you’ll get scratches from its vile claws. When you wake up and feel good about the day, then good for you. Don’t let that feeling go. But don’t be foolish and think to yourself things are going to be okay (okay is such a vapid word even, and that’s supposed to make you feel better?). Life is a two-faced liar - it’s hauntingly beautiful and evil. Things are not going to be better; they’re going to get harder. Life will throw something at you each and every time, no matter how old you are, how satisfied you are at the moment, and how much patience you have. It’s entropy, and the universe conspires against us. It’s always wanting to break us apart and create chaos. So call those people liars. It’s not going to get better; you’ll just learn how to overcome life and do better. You’ll be better - not life.

on seeing the glass for what it is (NJ.)

wondrousworldofwaldesca

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

Haruki Murakami (via therosethieves)

vegpunk77-deactivated20140505

"Let go, or be dragged."

Zen Proverb (via modernhepburn)

lydiateasedale-deactivated20221

22/03/14: Travel

Your blue veins run like rivers, thin threads on a map: I’d love to explore.

jamesandrewcrosby

Considering I cannot imagine it, it is not a part of the powers of my mind. You may say it exists and it is inherently conceivable, but my self is not your self. Only I know my self, you on the other hand do not know it, just like I cannot know and fully understand your self. Only my self can imagine matters of my self and can deal with those; it is not able to replace your self, for it solely belongs to me, not you; and thereby can only act according to me, just like your self follows itself not me. My self can only be my self. Therefore it cannot fully grasp and gather your thoughts and their pattern, therefore it cannot correspond to your self. I am my self and your faculty of imagination belongs solely to your self; my self is not inherently able to imagine your self. My self is solely my own and thereby only obliged to understand itself. It is logical that your self cannot understand the thoughts of my self, it is even self-evident that you remark critic to my self, considering external minds will forever remain as unreachable for our selves and your self has a different concept of validity. It is: your self and my self are independent from each other and seperate, not to be compared to – I am my self and evolve as my self, not your self, therefore our selves are not to be equatable.

Thoughts #48 (Your Self And My Self)

hpldreads

If you loved:

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Divergent by Veronica Roth

The Giver by Lois Lowery

Maybe you should try one of these!

The Selection by Kiera Cass

Matched by Ally Condie

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Wither by Lauren DeStefano

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

The Host by Stephanie Meyer

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

Legend by Marie Lu

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Feed by M. T. Anderson

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Gone by Michael Grant

Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

The City of Ember by Jeannie DuPrau

For the Win by Cory Doctorow

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Heir Apparent by Vivan Vande Velde

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama

X-Men: Days of Future Past by Chris Claremont and John Byrne

The Handmaid’s Tale by Magaret Atwood

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

1984 by George OrwelBrave New World by Aldous Huxley

maybemoonbeams

A certain scene in Unwind fucked my shit up.

tylerknott

I’ll be here waiting, my arms wide and fingers crossed, so hurry back home.

Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)

shaktichu

i forgot to mention to him after i told him the joan of arc

quote: ‘i’m not afraid i was born to do this,’

that she supposedly said it as her last few words before stepping onto the hay and being tied to the stick

shaktichu

the old man told me how things used to be

how when a moving truck showed up next door you would go up to them and say, hi, how are you? my name is so and so, welcome to the neighborhood

and then later when they were all moved in you’d say to them, why don’t you come over for dinner? and everyone in general would say, hi, how are you? goodmorning, goodday, good evening, all that is done with, yep, all that is over

now you don’t know your neighbors, people are frightened because… i don’t know what

the old man said all this to me with the conviction of Hamlet when he does his monologue after he says goodbye to Ophelia, as i just listened

but that’s not how it used to be, he said, it used to be different

it used to be decent

luspea

Smile (writing references)

(So I was doing research for myself, but I thought that it might be useful.)

Adjectives for Smile

radiant; broad; beautiful; sexy; lovely; rustic; uneasy; gracious; seductive; warm; disarming; regretful; winning; surprised; bitter; reminiscent; whimsical; boyish; girlish; wreathed; metallic; faint; apologetic; affectionate; sweet; amiable; solitary; pitying; ridiculous; quizzical; spicy; special; contagious; fawning amused; icy; wistful; courteous; crafty withering; beaming; dazzling; ravished; enormous uncontrolled; sickly; sly; devilish; maternal; eager naked; frank; joyous; complacent; brilliant answering; forced; angry; sympathetic wanton; contemptuous; deadly; sad; simulated; audible; illumined; parting; approving; ironical; mocking; sudden; indulgent; welcoming; irradiating; agreeable; restrained; watery; rare; playful; superior; arch; perpetual; innocent; sparkling; big; somber; polished; responding; irrepressible; religious; peculiar; convenient; everlasting; tolerant; vapid; priceless; vague; racked; complicated; smart; polite; murderous; disdainful sunny; indomitable; sinister; diabolical; complaisant; dim; patient; haughty; endless; rapid; passing; benign; lurid; crooked; placid; hot; grave; malicious; incredulous; timid; bland; provocative peerless; vivacious; mellow; wan; new quiet; calm; abrupt; loving; sagacious; cautious; buoyant; greasy; sardonic; conciliatory; sidelong; nasty; dawning; grim; ironical; false; meaning; sustaining; saucy; atoning; cynical; prodigal; charming; natural indifferent; tolerant; wry; little; visible mournful; naughty; weary; patronizing; languid deprecating; fitful; humorous; sarcastic; mutual; idiotic; frigid; hospitable; doubtful; ingratiating counterfeit; curious; mischievous; childlike exultant; saturnine; speculative; pensive immutable; condescending; pert; impish roguish; ghastly; rueful; hollow; unctuous inane; joyless; wild; satirical; reassuring slow; hideous; flattering; listless; parting fleeting; engaging; severe; immortal; insipid; moonshine; fascinating; facile; beatific; restless; scornful; blossomed; wondering; moony; senile; ambrosial; covert; airy; incisive; faded; shy; social; angelic; envious; debonair; bashful; artificial; waking; antiseptic; mischievous; paternal; dubious; malevolent; roguish; hungry; pale ready; clear; thoughtless; gentle; infectious conscious; timorous; haughty; frequent backward; enamored; obnoxious; pallid derisive; beguiling; excited; brittle; smarmy; conceited; sneering; wide; rascally; timid; meek; reluctant; courageous; nervous; kind; involuntary; smothered; ardent; brave; beaming; glowing; incandescent; inviting; fake; phony; imploring; practiced; delightful; endearing; cheerful.

Verbs for Smile

achieve—; answer with—; bestow—; cloud—; conceal—; crinkle into—; extinguish—; extract—; flash—; grant—; illuminate with —; induce—; loosen—; manage—; mock— permit—; provoke—; quench—; repress— rouse—; share—; shed—; suppress— throw—; toss—; wear—; wreathe in— wrinkle into—; —abashes; —basks; — confronts; —contorts; —creases; —crinkles; —deludes; —departs; —disconcerts; —disparages; —fades; —flashes; —flickers; —hides; —hovers; —lightens; —lingers; — mantles; —plays; —reassures; —renders; —reveals; —twitches.

Adverbs for Smile

delightedly; approvingly; shrewdly; affectionately; reluctantly; ecstatically; whimsically; tolerantly; radiantly; indulgently; benevolently; tremulously;grimly; sympathetically; blandly; beamingly; wanly; auspiciously; impudently; disarmingly; mischievously; magnanimously; unctuously; contemptuously; lewdly, winsomely; wryly; languidly; artificially; automatically; apathetically; benignly; facetiously; superficially; demurely; guilelessly; angelically; affably; ambiguously; coyly; cynically; cunningly; exultantly; exaggeratedly; cryptically; ruefully; benevolently.

sinkingdownthevein

Here is my hand, my heart, my throat, my wrist. Here are the illuminated cities at the center of me, and here is the center of me, which is a lake, which is a well that we can drink from, but I can’t go through with it. I just don’t want to die anymore.

Richard Siken, Saying your names (via sinkingdownthevein)