[thehopefulquotes]

“People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda.”

— Mike McHargue

[maneaterm1m1]

we are forced to express our violent passions in riddles and in dreams.

[toomanyrats]

on shame and yearning (pt.2)

[neophaim]

Sources:

S.T., "300122," Tumblr, January 30, 2022, https://www.tumblr.com/ryebreadgf/674840497145233408/300122-st.

Silas Denver Melvin, "love as an act of merciful conquer," Tumblr, November 2, 2021, https://www.tumblr.com/sweatermuppet/669052643259432960/from-love-as-an-act-of-merciful-conquer-by-silas.

chandajaan, Tumblr, accessed via https://rockboci.tumblr.com/post/674728141263093760.

Richard Siken, "Birds Hover the Trampled Field," in War of the Foxes (April 28, 2015).

Emily Palermo, "What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado," The Rising Phoenix Review, March 15, 2016, https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2016/03/15/what-i-could-never-confess-without-some-bravado-by-emily-palermo/.

Georges Bataille, My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man (January 1, 1966).

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (April 1, 2000).

Frank O'Hara, "Homosexuality," Poetry Foundation, May 1970, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=31570.

Heather Havrilesky, "I'm Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I've Wasted My Whole Life," The Cut, November 28, 2018, https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-ive-wasted-my-whole-life.html.

Lucille Clifton, "climbing," in The Book of Light (July 1, 1992).

[notbeingnoticed]

[tulipanico]

puglia's pattern

[mellowrust-deactivated20250717]

I didn't sleep because I felt like my face was morphing in some way, went to my hometown and the angles in the house were all wrong I think it's a replica and not my actual home, I didn't sleep again because I felt like hundreds of bugs were crawling over me and biting me but in the morning I didn't have any marks, living in my body disgusts me and it's deformed

I found a nice bakery that sells good baklava so love is real and nothing matters yeah I'm scared but it'll pass there's nothing wrong with being scared sometimes

[megans-bluesummer]

instagram

[ashstfu]

i saw some children playing outside yesterday and ended up crying because ........ i once used to be that age

[meowlgbt]

doctor said i need to be kissed hard. for an hour

[kosmogrl]

[tyjrose]

Being around water and just hearing nature gives me peace

[difficult]

Being in our natural habitat is good for us.

[bakwaaas]

my boss (a doctor) was like Yh my daughters applying to med school idk why I told her not to I really wouldn’t advise it lolll 😭

[kitttenteeth]

i have what I call the “This is my first time on earth” stare

[vividiangelo]

"It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil"

–Anthony Burgess

[mellowrust-deactivated20250717]

Hi hi yes I do have a terrible dependecy on other people

[derangedrhythms]

[...] I’m so pathetically intense. I just can’t be any other way.

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I: 1940 - 1956 — Edward Cohen, c. 11th September 1950

[thcartierrug]