Rancid Foliage

From below, the festering heat rose. The smell foul, in its bitter sweetness. The stench of carrion and rot-- for it was, but a pile of rancid foliage.

[77706-blog]

“The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.”

— Cheryl Strayed (via autobibliography)

[psikonauti]

Brandi Milne (American, b. 1976)

The Memory of Me (How Could I Forget?)

[thelovejournals]

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent, starving I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disquiets me, I search the liquid sound of your steps all day. I hunger for your sleek laugh, For your hands the color of the wild grain, I hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your loveliness, The nose, sovereign of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, And I walk hungry, smelling the twilight Looking for you, for your hot heart, Like a puma in the barren wilderness.

Pablo Neruda, I Crave Your Mouth. (via thelovejournals)

[wordsnquotes]

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.

Stephen King, The Stand (via wordsnquotes)

[loumargi]

Les Fleurs Du Sommeil (The Flowers of Sleep), by Achille Theodore Cesbron (1849-1915)

[amortizing]

[wnq-writers]

She’s like a song, she can be your favorite but you do not own her, and if you get bored of her, doesn’t mean she’s not beautiful anymore, as there are many other people that still admire this song and still is their favorite and many people will hear it and it can be their favorite, what I mean is, just because you don’t like someone anymore doesn’t necessarily mean they changed or there’s anything wrong with them, and just because you like someone doesn’t mean you own them, and if someone doesn’t love you anymore it doesn’t deny that once you were that person’s favorite song. All in all there are so many songs in the world and so many people, life doesn’t stop on someone’s interests.

cocaine-angell  (via wordsnquotes)

[vicforprez]

[help-n-quotes]

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

Ernest Hemingway (via help-n-quotes)

[wnq-writers]

I marvel at the trees, how their leaves change colors and fall off. I realize the biggest lesson I must learn from autumn is how to gracefully let go.

foreveragoboniversemma, writing prompt #63: write about the beauty of autumn (via wnq-writers)

[meetzemonsta]

sometimes i wonder what kind of person i’d be if i’d had a better childhood. i can’t remember a time before the abuse, before the trauma. it’s woven into my earliest memories. the abuse never stole my childhood–it was my childhood. there’s nothing to recover from, because there’s no “better before” for me to go back too. this is all i’ve got. this is all the fuck i am.

[heavensghost]

[mademoiselle-is-a-fairy]

Penélope Cruz photographed by Andres Serrano

[justbadpuns]

I got diagnosed with colour blindness the other day. It really came out of the purple

[thequotejournals]

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

Audrey Hepburn (via wordsnquotes)

[hannah-hakim-kim]

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Dark Blue - Jack’s Mannequin

[arzitekt]

Jacks Mannequin - Swim

You gotta swim  Swim for your life  Swim for the music  That saves you  When you’re not so sure you’ll survive  You gotta swim  Swim when it hurts  The whole world is watching  You haven’t come this far  To fall off the earth  The currents will pull you  Away from your love  Just keep your head above  I found a tidal wave  Begging to tear down the door  Memories like bullets  They fired at me from a gun  Cracking me open now  I swim to brighter days  Despite the absence of sun  Choking on salt water  I’m not giving in  You gotta swim  You gotta swim  For nights that wont end  Swim for your family  Your lovers your sisters  Your brothers your friends  You gotta swim  For wars without cause  Swim for these lost politicians  Who don’t see their greed is a flaw  The currents will pull us  Away from our love  Just keep your head above  I found a tidal wave  Begging to tear down the door  Memories like bullets  They fired at me from a gun  Cracking me open now  I swim to brighter days  In spite of the absence of sun  Choking on salt water  I’m not giving in  I’m not giving in  Swim  You gotta swim  Swim in the dark  There’s an ocean to drift in  Feel the tide shifting away from this war  Yeah you gotta swim  Don’t let yourself sink  Just follow the horizon  I promise you it’s not as far as you think  Currents will drag us away from our love  Just keep your head above  Just keep your head above  Swim  Just keep your head above  Swim  Just keep your head above  Swim