𝐌 𝐄 𝐍 𝐆

🌻🥑ᴀ ᴘʟᴀɴᴛ, ʜᴏᴡᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴄʟᴏꜱᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴅʏɪɴɢ, ᴄᴀɴ ꜱᴛɪʟʟ ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ʙᴀᴄᴋ. ꜱᴏ ᴄᴀɴ ʏᴏᴜ.🥑🌻

[happifying-things]

📷 from monimokshith

[happyheidi]

[ama-nee]

[ganeska]

[dedthred]

[nouvelle-nouveau]

“For a second, I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.”

— Running with Scissors (Augusten Burroughs)

[nouvelle-nouveau]

“The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same. You erase their experiences and perspective, their struggles and obstacles, their unique way of having to deal with those things in a world that also erases them. With the words, ‘but humans are humans’ or the bullshit dramatics of ‘we all bleed red’ normal people can simply pretend that if we all did things the way they did, then everything would work out okay. But, yes, we all bleed red but you don’t treat a paper-cut the same way you treat a gash, you don’t treat an infected wound the same way you treat one that isn’t, you don’t treat a wound to the leg the same way you treat a wound to the gut. You are not acknowledging someone’s personhood when you ignore the very things that make their lives different than yours, and when you refuse to understand that their circumstances have given them their own perspective that is just as valid as yours. More valid in fact – their perspective about their experiences that you haven’t been through is far more valid than anything you could ever think about it.”

— The danger of worldviews (Speaking when the world sleeps)

[nouvelle-nouveau]

“I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.”

— Willa Cather; “O Pioneers!” (via petrichour)

[nouvelle-nouveau]

“When I’m lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.”

— Steven Patrick Morrissey (via petrichour)

[dictionaryofobscuresorrows]

chrysalism

n. the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm, listening to waves of rain pattering against the roof like an argument upstairs, whose muffled words are unintelligible but whose crackling release of built-up tension you understand perfectly.

[nouvelle-nouveau]

How to break up with someone: Give them a sock and tell them they are a free elf now.

[nouvelle-nouveau]

“We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s.”

— Kifah Shah  (via essequamviderinunc)

[nouvelle-nouveau]

“She’s like smoke: you think you’re seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her there’s nothing there.”

— Ryū Murakami (via petrichour)

[theartofanimation]

[nouvelle-nouveau]

Rachel Walker

[nouvelle-nouveau]

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”

— Veronica Roth - Insurgent (via creatingaquietmind)

[nouvelle-nouveau]

“You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious, I am a painter. I am simply I am…You are a shit.”

— Frida Kahlo in a letter to Diego Rivera (via odetofemininity)

[nouvelle-nouveau]

“Cunt again? It was odd how men … used that word to demean women when it was the only part of a woman they valued.”

— Asha Greyjoy, A Dance With Dragons (via womankings)