#pictureusinthelight

[shamesonlydaughter]

hi anna i hope ur well !! ur icon is so pretty, where is it from? <3

hi hi omg u have no idea how much this inflated my ego lol i drew it myself! here’s the full image bc i don’t think i ever posted it :^0

[hellostacee]

"You have to look at the world like—you get one shot in it, and at the end you’re going to have to look back and see whether you said all you needed to say and gave it back to the world to hear, or if you just let that shrivel up inside you to die with you. All of us have to make that choice." ➸ Huge thanks to @disneybooks for sending me this gorgeous book. I love that cover so much. I just started this book yesterday and I’m eager to spend some time with it. It releases tomorrow and I’ll leave the synopsis in the comments. ➸ ➸ ➸ What do you want to say to the world? ➸ ➸ ➸ {#PictureUsInTheLight #KellyLoyGilbert #bibliophile #bookstagram #vscobooks #itsnothoardingitsbooks #booktography #bookoftheday #flatlaytoday #bookaesthetic #booksandtea}

[seastoried]

for the ask game, 1 & 12 !! 💐

ack sorry i meant to get to this earlier! tysm for the ask 💖

01. your favourite playlist (made by yourself or someone else)

i have been listening to this one of mine a lot lately, mostly just bc the vibes are feeling a little too accurate right around now.......i am maybe Going Through It......

i do love all these songs though

02. how many houseplants in your room, and what kinds are they?

hm so i'm kinda shit at keeping plants alive, but i did recently save a wine bottle and an olive oil bottle in yet another attempt to grow some vines or something

as of now i have a bust my friend gave me for my birthday filled with fake pink flowers that i stole liberated from a life of table decoration, and a couple of felt cacti i sewed

thank you again for sending this, it was a nice little break <3

[seastoried]

nooo sending hugs, i hope u feel better 🥺🫶

oh thank you so so much, i really do appreciate it 💜💜💜

[roseandherwhitebear]

PICTURE US IN THE LIGHT

by Kelly Joy Gilbert

 “It’s nice to have someone in your life you don’t have to worry about as much, someone you know will always be okay.”

“You’re going to have to choose, too. You have to look at the world like- you got one shot in it, and at the end you’re going to have to look back and see whether you said all you needed to say and gave it back to the world to hear, or if you just let that shrivel up inside you to die with you. All of us have to make that choice.” 

“Something happened, though, inside him; it was like all the color bled out from the world around him and what was left over was muted and dull.” 

“It’s a profoundly lonely feeling when someone who’s supposed to love you doesn’t have it in them to be around you.” 

“If history has shown anything, it’s that humanity is rotten at its very core. There is a screaming emptiness where goodness might reside; instead of empathy and principle there is fear and greed and stunning, breathtaking hypocrisy. People will believe themselves good in the face of all evidence to the contrary; people will smile and cling to their own respectability in the face of atrocity.” 

“But when you light a fire you don’t always get to choose where it burns.” 

“Other people don’t exist just to be your happy ending, you know?”

“Pain multiplies exponentially. What you cannot fix you can continue to destroy.” 

“Who are you in the face of someone else’s pain?”

[katiecotugno]

I kind of don’t even know what to say about this book except that it’s stunning and you should read it immediately?!?! I sobbed through the last 20 pages and can’t stop thinking about it. What an incredible talent #yalit has in @kellyloygilbert. #yacontemporary #bookstagram #pictureusinthelight