LYDIA

A series of closing doors

[perfectquote]

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”

— Margaret Atwood

[rosevyi]

to leave a beautiful mark on people’s hearts, even if they don’t deserve it

[thereadmind]

[heavensghost]

How the absence of someone else feels like the absence of myself

[mournfulroses]

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

[princessofwallachia]

[what-iz-life]

Crazy how peaceful life becomes when you stop fixing things you didn't break because it's not your job, start ignoring the silent treatment because it's an uncommunicated one-sided beef, and start doing what's best for you and disappoint people's undiscussed expectations of you.

[umtxqwa]

وهذه الدُّنيا لا تَستحِقّ أن تبكِي فيها على شيءٍ أكثر مِن ذُنوبِك!

And this dunya is not worth crying over anything more than your sins!

[inloveforevr-deactivated2025041]

[kosmogrl]

[warde0-deactivated20250118]

Sufyān Ath-Thauri rahimahullāh said:

“Three (matters) are of patience: that you do not talk about your pains, nor about your misfortunes, nor praise yourself.”

‎تفسير إبن كثير ٦٢٠ / ١

[luthienne]

“It has been a warm — soft — smooth — sparkling day — Sun that I seemed to have forgotten could be warm —”

— Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter to Jean Toomer, from Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters

[geryone]

Comfort Me With Apples, Catherynne M. Valente

[heavensghost]

[lydia-who]

[lydia-who]

[lydia-who]

I mean..