and all that.

[ppuppetearr]

don't fall in love with me. learn to love me slowly. notice my quirks, repeat my most used words. remember my favourite coffee order, even as it changes by the season. look at my face, focus on my eyes. they'll always tell you what i'm thinking. hold my fidgeting hands when i get anxious. celebrate my wins with me quietly but deeply. smell the newly washed cotton rather than the perfume i wear outside. categorise my smiles (i have one for each person i meet). step into the old broken down house i grew up in. do not fall in love blindly. learn me. then love me.

[handweavers]

a lot of loving and being loved by people is recognizing when they're sincerely trying to help or comfort you even if their words are clunky and unhelpful at best and holding onto the sentiment that they are trying to reach for you at all. and a lot of the time that has to be enough because it's all you're going to get

[ppuppetearr]

so is this the end? or are we in the process of finding our way back to each other?

[ppuppetearr]

and when i finally saw you again, i realised i never missed you, but the person i thought you were.

[ppuppetearr]

"But as it turned out, loving people didn’t always mean understanding them, because the more he seemed to understand, the less he loved them."

[christakisbang]

we need to eliminate the trend of songs being under 3 minutes long. it's dire. it's imperative.

[ppuppetearr]

"do you think we're inevitable?"

[veravictorialee]

[ppuppetearr]

you know when you walk through the woods at night and you see the light in the distance, and suddenly you don't notice the darkness anymore, or the mosquitoes in your face, or your tiredness...but the think is...there is no light in the trees for me.

[fateofgrace]

coco mellors, cleopatra and frankenstein.

[thequotejournals]

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.” ― Charles Bukowski

[weltenwellen]

Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

[ppuppetearr]

“𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶. 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢—𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭—𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭?”

—𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯—

[ppuppetearr]

its 2am and suddenly i feel that familiar ache in i'm chest like i'm missing something or someone but i cant quite name it at the same time.

[ppuppetearr]

“They told me, they're very clear, 'you may not come out of this alive', and I said, 'Oh, well, that's a plus isn't it?'"

- Paul Rodgers

[ppuppetearr]

[ppuppetearr]

If you find yourself trapped inside a dimming world, remember it was always this dark inside the body.

If you find yourself, then congratulations, your hands are yours to keep.

If you forget me, then you've gone too far.

Turn back.

- Ocean Vuong