l'esprit de l'escalier

"No matter where I go, I still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I’m still the same incomplete person"

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

sometimes you need to do the hard thing. study for your test even if it’s boring and you want to avoid it. get up an hour early to exercise even if you feel like death. go out of your way to help someone else even if it’s inconvenient. do something alone even though you’re afraid of being judged. go somewhere new even if it’s scary and disorientating at first. confess to the person who makes u blush even if it means risking rejection. let go of your old habits even though it feels like you can’t live without them. it’s supposed to be hard. life isn’t going to have amazing rewards if you’re always feeling comfortable.

[perrfectly]

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.”

— Thomas Edison (via perrfectly)

[wordsthat-speak]

“There was so much sadness in everything, even when things worked.”

— Charles Bukowski

[thesymmetricaltransit]

news flash: you cannot be a self proclaimed nice person (who does that anyway????) if you feel like you swallowed a spoonful of battery acid EVERY time someone else gets what you want

[books-n-quotes]

“When the time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.”

— Banksy, Wall and Piece (via books-n-quotes)

[wordsthat-speak]

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[perrfectly]

“The quickest way to get someone’s attention is to no longer want it”

— Anonymous (via neckkiss)

[perrfectly]

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”

— Steve Maraboli (via perrfectly)

[twister]

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”

— Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital (via coral)

[thesymmetricaltransit]

Hi, I think I’m ready to start writing again

[stability]

[mcrksloans-deactivated20190716]

[amberibarreche]

[wordsnquotes]

It’s hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian (via wordsnquotes)

[eldgivning-deactivated20171107]

[thequotejournals]

Not everyone can feel things as deeply as you. Most people, their feelings are … bland, tasteless. They’ll never understand what it’s like to read a poem and feel almost like they’re flying, or to see a bleeding fish and feel grief that shatters their heart…

Juliann Garey, Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See (via wordsnquotes)

[cyborgsinc-deactivated20190520]

101916 – bullet journal from two weeks ago! as for the present: currently reading (and enjoying) the crying of lot 49 by thomas pynchon, looking forward to fall break (and visiting my sister), and am reasonably satisfied with the results from the midterm hell that was last week.