The Pen Has Been Lifted&The Pages Have Dried

Read it &Weep

[aseaofquotes]

Augusten Burroughs, Dry

[a-joyfuljourney]

[passivites]

[buttonpoetry]

Say ‘hoodlum’ enough, and people forget a group of boys can be any other thing.

Ashley Lumpkin - “At Home and Abroad” (WOWPS 2016)

Performing at the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam. Subscribe to Button on YouTube!

(via buttonpoetry)

[livingstills]

[noorshirazie]

In a crowd of hundreds, I still find myself searching for a familiarity with which I never grew up, for hands that should have held mine as I learned how to walk, warmth that should have read me bedside stories and sung me sweet lullabies. And though I cannot forgive the merciless years for robbing me of a father that should have protected my innocence when I needed him, I cannot stop myself from missing what was never there, for craving comfort of which every child should know.

Noor Shirazie, to the void i still call a father. (via aestheticintrovert)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.

Albert Camus, from The Possessed: A Play (via rabbrakha)

[pedahls]

[aseaofquotes]

Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

Submitted by brightenly.

[aseaofquotes]

Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

[the-red-lotus-blog-deactivated2]

Reality is much more complex than any judgement of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people’s choices are not based on a desire to hurt. Instead, they are in accord with what they know and what world views are available to them. Most are doing the best they can, given what information they’ve received and what problems they are facing.

Michael Lerner  (via thelittlephilosopher)

[futurebirds-]

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heartfelt Advice for Hard Times (via rabbrakha)

[gayzelos]

*visits own blog* nice

[ciaoveneca]

Chicago is the most American of cities and because of that, it represents the best and the worst components of humanity at the same time. We are not New York, embedded more in the cultural lexicon of global greatness and cool. We are not Los Angeles, a surreal collection of paradises found, real, or manufactured. No, Chicago is a study of all things at once: unparalleled beauty and homegrown poverty; individualist pride and global ambitions; unchecked power and oppressive inaccessibility; massive amounts of diversity and hypersegregation.

Britt Julious, “Confronting the Best and Worst of Ourselves in Chicago ” (via ciaoveneca)

[destination-unkown]

Educate yourself. When a question about a certain topic pops up, Google it. Watch movies and documentaries. When something sparks your interest, read about it. Read read read. Study, learn, stimulate your brain. Don’t just rely on the school system, educate that beautiful mind of yours.

Travel-As-A-Happy-Hippie (via sarah-vs-studying)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Yes, it is you, and I am in love with you and I am going to be frank, because when you have an equal you can afford to be frank. I am happy about you, for you, with you. I adore you. You make me believe that anything is possible.

Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin featured in A Literate Passion: Letters Of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller (1932 - 1953)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.

Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters To Vera (via petrichour)