Pardon my French

Blogger, writer, reader, amateur photographer, sporadical traveler and full-time walrus. Beer and wine lover.

[bakwaaas]

honestly it’s actually the small, mundane, boring things that someone does for you out of love which mean so much rather than grand gestures and proclamations

[lastparty]

from butch is a noun by s. bear bergman

[archatlas]

Honest Advice On Relationships And Life In General By This Balloon Artist 

 "I try to make commentary about, or poke fun at, social media. The balloons were a social media trope often used in bridal showers and gender reveals, so they were a natural progression of that idea. I love the contrast of profound, funny, or challenging quotes spelled in silly balloons. And since another common cliche is endless selfies, I tend to put myself in most of the photos. They often make people cringe, but the cringe is the point,“ Michael told Bored Panda.

[silentauroriamthereal]

I love these so much. Needed to hear more than one of them.

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

[eatsleepdraw]

Emily J Moore, “Want/Need”, Acrylic, Marker and Ink on Illustration Board, 12.5 by 16.5 inches, 2013, emilyjmoore.com

[saying]

[transpare-what]

[minuty]

“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are … Or we can decide for ourselves.”

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[nevver]

The New Yorker

[minuty]

[perrfectly]

[evycarnahan]

“What is a witch but a woman men cannot quiet?”

— Carla Sofia Ferreira, from “Fragments Shored Against Our Ruins,” published in Honey & Lime (via lifeinpoetry)

[iguanamouth]

catharsis (alternate letters)

[peoplealwaysleave-99]

[demencialinoideal]

She just kept going…

[nevver]

Ella Frances Sanders

[raisawho]

“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”

— Kazuo Ishiguro, in his Nobel prize (2017) acceptance speech.   (via halcynth)

[bled]

“i do not want you to fill the empty parts of me i want to be full on my own i want to be so complete i could light a whole city and then i want to have you cause the two of us combined could set it on fire” — Rupi Kaur

[adrasteiax]

“I hope it’s love. I’m trying really hard to make it love.”

— Richard Siken, from Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper