characteristic immoderation

@brightenlebeau | San Diego

[engulfes]

In a close intimate relationship with my sorrows

[heavensghost]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth we’re briefly gorgeous

(words sewn onto paper) my art Instagram

[dreamsofacommonlanguage]

Being queer saved my life. Often we see queerness as deprivation. But when I look at my life, I saw that queerness demanded an alternative innovation from me. I had to make alternative routes; it made me curious; it made me ask, "Is this enough for me?"

— Ocean Vuong

[virginiewoolf]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

[hirxeth]

“We wasted so many days. Why didn’t you give me a sign?”

Call Me by Your Name (2017) dir. Luca Guadagnino

[subtlyreckless]

instagram: @brightenlebeau

[sjowgren-deactivated20240728]

this isn’t fun anymore i need a kiss

[nightlyquotes]

“I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.”

— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

[oscarwilds]

Going to a library with someone you love and sitting in a corner with your head propped up on their shoulder while you both are reading books in peace and calm is the most intimately wholesome thing ever.

[matialonsorphoto]

[abiding-in-peace]

[typewriter-worries]

Even for me, life had its gleams of sunshine.

In the Country of Resurrection, Ada Limón | Morning Coffee, Mary Bradish Titcomb | Morning Sun, Edward Hopper | Daily Bread, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong ( @beautymyeyes-see ) | Sun in an Empty Room, Edward Hopper | After the Storm, Olena Babak | Afternoon on a Hill, Edna St. Vincent Millay ( @fairyette ) | Green and Gold, Henry Scott Tuke | The Black Brook, John Singer Sargent | Snake, Mary Oliver ( @tenderfaery )

[radicalgraff]

“If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear.” 

Spotted in Clackamas, Oregon

[quotemadness]

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”

— R. Arnold

[thoughtkick]

“I’ve found that growing up means being honest. About what I want. What I need. What I feel. Who I am.”

— Epiphany

[babbyygirrrl]

I hate giving up on people but i hate forcing shit even more.

[ashscloudd]

there's no better after me