chel on the shore

aimless wandering mindless wondering

[lucidloving]

David Foster Wallace // Marya Hornbacher, Waiting // Albert Camus, A Happy Death // Kai Cheng Thom, A Place Called No Homeland // Brené Brown, Dancing Greatly // @danielcalmdown // Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love and Leaps of Faith // Marya Hornbacher, Waiting // Sleeping At Last—Neptune

[no-noodles-here]

All men are trash

[sonatiines]

unrequited.

@/ashstfu || hozier || @/fatimaamerbilal || emily palermo || ernest hemingway || the lylacs || salma deera || richard siken

[no-noodles-here]

I love you that I am undone

[mothprincess]

Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

[kupou-deactivated20170806]

life is honestly too short to be embarrassed over anything that sparks even a little happiness in you

[no-noodles-here]

"I don't know it's like I look at you and suddenly the sonnets make sense"

[kendallroynsfw]

everything everywhere all at once is about intergenerational trauma. about depression and passive suicidality and the gravitational appeal of nothingness. about aging, getting older in your twenties and getting older in your fifties. about the specific hurt mothers can cause their daughters and daughters their mothers. about the harsh reality of the immigrant experience and the american dream. but it’s mostly about kindness and family and it’s about choosing to sit at home talking about taxes with someone who loves you, and it’s about telling your daughter that you’d choose her over the entire universe, and it’s about how even in the universes where life didn’t form, love can still exist. and it’s really all of that at once.

[electricheart]

it’s so true that the greatest weapon against nihilism and existential despair is to find joy in the mundane and never stop chasing after love

[academiaipromise]

no because when everything everywhere all at once said “‘alone I’m useless’ ‘everyone’s useless alone. good thing we’re not alone.’” and “in another life, i would have loved to have just done laundry and taxes with you” and “you think i am naive. i’ve been alive just as many years as you. this [love] is how i fight” and “of all the places i could be, I just want to be here with you” and-

[heartcountry]

i love when poetry does that (makes every moment of my life stack on top of one another and sit on my heart until i am sure every cell in my body remembers it is alive again)

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“You can say anything and I will not abandon you.”

[no-noodles-here]

“Youth,” the old woman quotes, “is wasted on the young.”

[no-noodles-here]

The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again.

[no-noodles-here]

Then one day, without the slightest warning, Tony Takitani fell in love.

[no-noodles-here]

i hope that everyone meets someone who makes them want to write poetry

for them to feel whole yet yearning all at once

[no-noodles-here]

that it was always October in my throat

and you; every leaf

refusing to rust

[lelif]

How do I look away now that I have seen you?

on being seen and known and understood

Rachel Mennies, from "April 18, 2017", The Naomi Letters//NA//picture: Mihaly Zichy "romantic encounter", quote: Micah Nemerever "These Violent Delights", edit @promqueendyke // Micah Nemerever, "These Violent Delights"//Marie Howe, "The Affliction"//Anne Carson, "Red Doc>"//NA//Taylor Swift, "Daylight"//Elizabeth Gilbert, "Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage"//Little Women (2019)