Alya

In another universe, someone will love me the way I am and speak to me softly when I make a mistake.

[wedarkacademia]

She asks me to kill the spider. Instead, I get the most peaceful weapons I can find.

I take a cup and a napkin. I catch the spider, put it outside and allow it to walk away.

If I am ever caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, just being alive and not bothering anyone,

I hope I am greeted with the same kind of mercy.

𝐑𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨, 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐮𝐦

[coltre]

okay you seem nice but do animals trust you?

[birdasaurus]

Evelyn Dragan

[titsay]

[thoughtcascades]

i want a life that feels less like recovery and more like arrival

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

[somewordsarebiggerthanothers]

[achtsamkeitsblog]

I don't like talking to people anymore

[angelicdewdrop]

[3theodore]

i need a really long and tight hug

[honeydewdrops333]

what doesn’t kill you makes your nervous system more sensitive for the rest of your life

[eymurn]

The older I get, the more I realize being in a hurry is a terrible way to live your life.

[kosmogrl]

[birintiharmelegi]

[aidashakur]

This version of me has boundaries, peace, purpose, and no guilt about it. I love her.

[fairycosmos]

hey is anyone else sick of having to adapt to horrible conditions over and over again

[petaltexturedskies]

But I do feel strange—almost unearthly. I’ll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived.

John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters