and in that silence, what grace

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”

[just--earth]

[myheadisfullofpoison]

favorite lyrics on folklore

illicit affairs

[quotefeeling]

“Hang on. It gets easier and then it gets okay and then it feels like freedom.”

— Taylor Swift

[feral-ballad]

“My eyes cling to the storm;”

— Nadia Tueni, tr. by Kamal Boullata, from Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry by Arab Women

[feral-ballad]

Laila Halaby, Edited by Nathalie Handal, from The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology; “Handfuls of wind”

[heathervibes]

YES YES YES

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[qvotext]

“Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.”

— Max Ehrmann; Desiderata

[qvotext]

“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

[thoughtkick]

“In a while he reached across the table and took her hand in his. He could not have known that he was trying to comfort a building that had been struck by lightning.”

— Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

[philosophyquotes]

“It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.”

— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[sunsetquotes]

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

[sunsetquotes]

“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

[sunsetquotes]

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”

— Kait Rokowski

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“And even while tired of life, you stand firm, for something or someone.”

— Daniel C. L. 

[versaillesadness]

[fluentinswiftsongs]

Would it be enough if I can never give you peace?

[theman]

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