#quotes of note

[steadynightruins]

"If theres one thing we can learn from vampires, it's that life is short but that's it's gift. Find beauty in the ephemeral and gratitude in what is not promised. And always invest in the people that want to see you blossom into your truest self, and hold that space for them in return" - Ali Louis Bourzgui

[grannybumpkin]

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

[snowdropskylark]

Wish not for treasures you can hold, no gleaming jewels, bright and cold,

for finer still than pearl or gold, the treasure of a tale well told.

gelfling rhyme

[snowdropskylark]

‘bitch,’ he spits.

‘witch,’ he sneers.

& I say,

‘actually, I’m both.’

reclaim everything.

Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn’t Burn In This One

[snowdropskylark]

Bring your lips to mine so that out of my mouth my soul may pass into yours.

Denis Diderot, chanson dans le goût de la romance

[snowdropskylark]

"It is a serious thing to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world."

- Mary Oliver

[snowdropskylark]

"I am so pathetically intense. I just can't be any other way."

- Sylvia Plath, letter to Edward Cohen, 11th September 1950

[jecornett-blog]

"Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul" by James McBride - "A troubled world, this new America, a disturbing world, where the n-word is verboten but the notion of poverty is not; a world with liars on both sides of the racial divide who will say anything and twist history any way they can in order to gain a percentage; a nation of private for-profit supermax prisons full of young men who desperately need help, guarded by other young men who once worked on farms and grew corn and raised cows in the very same places where those prisons now sit. A world of beer, cognac, guns, violence, nice cars, tennis shoes, and Super Bowl commercials. Jive. For Us. By Us. Sold to Us. By Ourselves. The new cultural export: American Jive."