eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation.

they tore you down and they tore out your tongue and they made you kneel for all the things that you’d done. but you wouldn’t cry, and you wouldn’t beg, you just grinned and tore out your teeth instead.

[thehopefulquotes]

“Be willing to walk alone. Many who start with you won’t finish.”

— Unknown

[shinymindvomit]

fin; when the ghosts of our pasts finally call it quits.

[shinymindvomit]

i feel this tiredness

deep in my bones

like broken swings at night

they hum their own tune

a sick sad song indeed.

[shinymindvomit]

heart strings.

she built me

tied every strand

to my bones.

and she played

these strings frayed

named the show Mother.

[amargedom]

““Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.””

—

[shinymindvomit]

unfortunately you can't *make* any normal person magically understand your abuse or your trauma, it doesn't work like that, even if those people are your loved ones.

the only people who will ever really get what you went through are people that've suffered the same way you have, even if those people are complete strangers.

and here we are.

[razna]

“I’m mercurial, sometimes I want greatness, sometimes just its shadow.”

— Roberto Bolaño, from “Prose from Autumn in Gerona,” The Unknown University, trans. Laura Healy (New Directions, 2013)

[shinymindvomit]

hypothermia.

What if I told you that I understand the reason why some people stop fighting halfway, and just give in, and be at a complete standstill..?

What if I told you that I know where these people are coming from, and what if I told you that I would’ve done the same thing??

Is giving up selfish? Is being too damn exhausted to fight the same thing over and over selfish? so when do we get to stop? When do we get to finally ..rest?

[adrenaline]

[magictransistor]

[lacuna-matata]

[journalofanobody]

Haiku

how many seasons,

minutes, days, months, now a year–

I will endure them all

– Michael Boiano

[goodreadss]

“We have already gone beyond whatever we have words for.”

—

[anicklebittome]

Barefoot

[thehopefulquotes]

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

— Louise Fitzhugh

[shinymindvomit]

there are all these quotes and wisdom around forgiveness, sure. but has anyone ever questioned how big forgiveness is, and how deep do we have to go, before we lose ourselves completely.. in the name of forgiveness?

questions unasked.

[shinymindvomit]

my heart is so tired.

surviving anxiety.