K

[glowcowboy]

WE HAVE ENOUGH DEAD FRIENDS by lena oleanderson [ID in ALT.]

[feral-ballad]

Silas Denver Melvin, from Grit: Poems; “Twenty”

[Text ID: “you’re so polite with your sadness. you don’t want to ruin this for anyone. you’re good at that.”]

[lost-explorations]

“It would have been so easy to go back to. So easy to relapse into it. So simple. It would almost feel like going home. To let it consume you. To let it take over. To give into it. It was only a small part of you that stood up and said ‘no’. That said, ‘you’re better than this.’ That said, ‘choose happiness. Even if it’s hard. Even if it’s the hardest choice you’ve ever had to make.’”

— Sue Zhao // Relapse (via moaka)

[mishproductions]

“Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks

[sweetestsecrets]

“Do you know what I want of life? / That I can be with you, you, all of you, / and if life repeated a thousand times, / still you, you, and again, you.”

— Forugh Farrokhzad, from  Sin: Selected Poems; “On Loving,” (via mournfulroses)

[quotespile]

“We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them — to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That’s very important. If you don’t forgive yourself you’ll never be able to forgive anybody else and you’ll go on committing the same crimes forever.”

— James Baldwin, Another Country

[surqrised]

“Every person from your past lives as a shadow in your mind. Good or bad, they all helped you write the story of your life, and shaped the person you are today.”

— Doe Zantamata

[poemwav]

from "Homosexuality" (1970)

[apocryphics]

[mournfulroses]

Élisabeth Lacoin, from a letter to Simone de Beauvoir written in October 1929

[urparty]

being in my 20s is like I understand more of my mother and less than i ever have. My childhood friends are strangers to me and there’s no one i know better. i want to drink wine. i never stopped wanting to climb trees. i know more than I’ve ever known before. I don’t know anything at all. i’m seven years old and sixteen and twenty nine and seventy. I can’t tell when i'm happy. I think the only thing that will make me happy is to be little again. i want to be really old. i go to the ocean and feel like nothing matters more than that. in my bedroom everything matters so much. I go to the grocery store every day. i know how to cook a lot of things but the only thing i know how to eat is fried eggs. I can take care of myself but i want to be taken care of. i want to go home and I don't know where that is. i think it may be somewhere inside of me but i’m not sure

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“People need to be encouraged. People need to be reminded of how wonderful they are. People need to be believed in - told that they are brave and smart and capable of accomplishing all the dreams they dream, and more. Remind each other of this.” - Stacey Jean Speer

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“When people are ready, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.” - Andy Warhol

[anancientheart]

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever given me. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling.”

— Aldous Huxley 

[ahotknife]

oh emily wilson translation of the iliad we’re really in it now

[trees-and-planets]

— Yann Martel, "Life of Pi"

[girlfictions]

— Fiona Apple