what makes you feel alive?

show me the softest parts of you; you deserve this love & More

[llleighsmith]

“I thought she was sleeping until I heard her call out from across the room, “Will you bring me a glass of water?” I did. Then in her always-sleepy tone and drawl she said, “Do you remember when you were a little girl and you would ask your mama to bring you a glass of water?” Yeah. “You know how half the time you weren’t even thirsty. You just wanted that hand that was attached to that glass that was attached to that person you just wanted to stay there until you fell asleep.” She took the glass of water that I brought her and just sat it down full on the table next to her. Wow, I thought. What am I gonna do with love like this.”

— One Night from Dito Montiel’s A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints

[beholdingslut]

“if there is a light then i am going to swallow it. if there is a god then i’m going to make him cry.”

— s. osborn, from “blasphemies at the 5th street station,” published in The Rising Phoenix Review (via lifeinpoetry)

[the-library-and-step-on-it]

“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love’s not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time…”

— Journal Fragment written in the summer of 1950, Sylvia Plath.

[bnmxfld]

J.D. Salinger / The Catcher in the Rye

[praying]

by Laura Adel Johnson

[s-unberry]

“You will fall in love with me. Then, just months later, you will fall out. I will pretend the entire time that I don’t know it’s coming.”

— Miles Walser, excerpt from “A Sonnet of Invented Memories” (via feellng)

[sunbeamdaydreams-deactivated202]

[lesbianherstorian]

clippings from “women seeking women” personal ads in the baltimore sun, 1995

[opiumcrone]

‘I had no altar, but I did not need one: anywhere I was became my temple.’

                Madeline Miller, Circe

[books-n-quotes]

“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

[danger]

[sevgiliplath]

[stormpreparations]

Sebastian, gentlest flame that arose the night the wolves began howling. the stars shed tears at the sight of you, but you didn’t mind. you were alive, and the skies blazed red, then grey with your might. purpose would come later. 3am and you’re fifteen miles above the speed limit, streaking past your old high school in your dad’s new convertible. you’d just learned of the ache that grew in vines, entangled itself in the softest ropes of your being. you wished with all your heart that you could raze it to the ground, even if it meant forgetting how the moon silvered and quaked when you thought of her. 6am, and shy sunlight weaves her fingers into the locks of your hair, brushes your cheeks, lips. you put your head in her lap and sleep. you don’t need to hear the words, you are so loved, to know that they are true.

[wallflowerbloom]

[caffeinecoldmp3-deactivated2017]

[ink-trails]

Have you ever seen anything blossom like a girl who learns that she is capable of everything? In an instant, she is a lush forest, infectious with life, she becomes a walking storm, absorbing everything but light– she exudes it, beams, she is an exploding sun. A universe is born and I’d give her worlds for her thoughts.

Forget the penny, she’s got something that’s worth more (via ink-trails)

[l-o-o-p-y-deactivated20190722]

Details of a couture gown designed by Bob Mackie. American fashion designer, Bob Mackie, custom designed this gown at the request of an unknown lady in 1991. The gown found itself featured in HBHO’s Gia (1998) and worn by Angelina Jolie as Supermodel Gia Carangi.

[ka-waltz]

honestly way more things should happen ~at the request of an unknown lady~

gonna step out on a limb here and say “everything”