Our flaws are not our anomalies.

Taruna. 22. Architecture student, I write and draw on the side to articulate my thought processes and make sense of life.

[tarunakhatri]

Tricky but expected. Check out more of my work at @half.arted on Instagram.

[noorshirazie]

take me home if there is one intact. return my heart to me if there is one left. gift me with affection if it still remains. if everything has gone, take me back anyway. there is a graveyard that deserves my farewell. let my quiet sobs fill the air with something more than silence. these flowers may have wilted, but they will kiss the headstones of lost memories once again. we will reawaken the ghosts and celebrate in defiance. in mourning. in spite of any loss that dared to cross our path.

Noor Shirazie (via noorshirazie)

[noorshirazie]

in a good life, we get everything we yearn for. in a perfect life, everything we yearn for lies within each other. someone should have told me not to conjure an ideal world in someone who was looking for their own ideal world in someone else.

Noor Shirazie, broken cycle. (via noorshirazie)

[themotivationjournals]

But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (via noorshirazie)

[thevintagearab-deactivated20230]

Hayv Kahraman

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I know, I know it intimately, tormentedly, the wound of love,

Friedrich Hölderlin, tr. by Angel Flores, from Poems; “My Home,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[forbiddenwhispers]

“But you have to think that Notre Dame will be gone one day.”

Before Sunset (2004) Dir. Richard Linklater

[mejuki-deactivated20240410]

[excisions]

[fernsandmoss]

Mathieu Lambert

[quotemadness]

We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we’ve never even met?

David Foster Wallace (via quotemadness)

[quotemadness]

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

— A.A. Milne

[birchtreestudies]

22.01.18 || Went to Edinburgh over the weekend. Bought a beautiful book.

[wordsnquotes]

We must never allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.

Virginia Satir (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

Each found [their] greatest safety in silence.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (via wordsnquotes)

[jillianfleck]

Bad Love Will Make a Museum of You by Jillian Fleck

[wnq-quotes]

Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.

Andrea Gibson

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[scarlet-speaks]

the similarities.