the butterfly effect

[books-n-quotes]

I want to stop running away from everything. I want to find something to run toward.

Hannah Harrington, Saving June (via books-n-quotes)

[ollebosse]

Saga by Jantina Peperkamp

[orange-aid-blog]

Oblivion

9.5.16 You don’t scare me. The ominous place. Dark on the edges.

No. You are the place of forgetting. Forgotten.

Your border looks sharp and foreboding.

My heart quickens when my toes press against the line where you begin, but when you welcome me in, I fall into the heart of you. And it is deliciously soft inside. Muffling my pain. The pain isn’t gone. But wrapped up tight.

Suffocated within your thick belly. Come suffocate me with your thick disregard.

[orange-aid-blog]

“You will always remember what you were doing / when it hurt the most.”

—

Ocean Vuong, from “Untitled (Blue, Green, and Brown): oil on canvas: Mark Rothko: 1952,” Night Sky with Exit Wounds (via wethinkwedream)

I’ll never forget the day he told me “Nothing happened”. What he meant was they didn’t have sex, but what I knew was that something far more terrifying had taken place. He had felt himself come alive with her. I know the exact spot I was standing in when I felt the rip in my chest; felt the floor sliding out from beneath me. I could walk down the stairs and stand there now if I wanted. Later when I sat across from the porch swing when he told me he thought I loved him too much, that I might fall apart if something happened to him. And I made up my mind to not ever need him again.

[orange-aid-blog]

“That time you confused a lesson for a soulmate.”

— Dream Hampton (via nakedly)

[orange-aid-blog]

Tender (adj.)

1. easily broken, cut, or crushed; soft; not tough:

2. easily damaged; vulnerable or sensitive:

3. having or expressing warm and affectionate feelings:

4. kind, merciful, or sympathetic:

5. arousing warm feelings; touching:

6. gentle and delicate:

7. requiring care in handling; ticklish:

8. painful or sore:

9. sensitive to moral or spiritual feelings:

10. (foll by: of) careful or protective:

11. what I am, down deep

[orange-aid-blog]

The beautiful rift

I’m just so different now. I love me. I don’t look at your face unless I have to. I avoided looking at your face because I was afraid of what might stir in me that would bring me back to you. As if there were some strong sinister force that could overcome me and take me back to that miserable girl who gave her life to you. But I’ve been bolder of late. And I scan your face and feel nothing. I am powerful. I am real.

I don’t need you. I don’t need him. I have me. Glorious.

[orange-aid-blog]

“Your brain is always watching you and judging the type of person you are. When it sees you attacking the gym consistently day after day, month after month, it’s more likely to believe you and support you when you attack something new in life.”

— -Jade Teta

[booksqouted]

I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, and they glimpse the truth within you. In that moment, you don’t belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. After that, you can’t take it back, no matter how much you want to, no matter how hard you try.

Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You (via booksqouted)

[purplebuddhaproject]

[msslsworld]

A healthy relationship keeps the doors and windows open. Plenty of air is circulating and no one feels trapped. Relationships thrive in this environment. Keep your doors and windows open. If this person is meant to be in your life, all the open doors and windows in the world won’t make them leave.

[orange-aid-blog]

[orange-aid-blog]

[thatattoozone-deactivated201710]

@ jackyegi

[amortizing]

That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.

Pittacus Lore (via amortizing)

[amortizing]

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Carl Jung (via amortizing)

[orange-aid-blog]