holding hands with someone is one of the simplest and greatest things on earth. nothing else really matters honestly

when oscar wilde said "i'm tired of myself tonight, i should like to be someone else' and when sylvia plath said ''i wish i knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart" and when rilke said "this heavy humanness" .

A murder mystery where every character believes themselves to be responsible for the death, and tries their best to cover it up.

When did I become I and the body? When did the two of us separate? ~ Adit Nagrath

1. Warsan Shire | 2. Maïté Grandjouan | 3. Porochista Khakpour | 4. Maïté Grandjouan | 5. Rainer Maria Rilke | 6. Holly Warburton | 7. Ocean Vuong | 8. Hollis Brown Thornton | 9. Ocean Vuong | 10. Laurie Halse Anderson | 11. Hollis Brown Thornton | 12. Richard Siken

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

Stephen King

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

We didn't even realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.

Winnie The Pooh

Between the Arkenstone, the One Ring, and that cache of magic swords Bilbo uncovered during Thorin and company’s confrontation with the trolls that just happened to be the former property of the High King of the Noldor, Bilbo and Gandalf’s relationship is just a constant process of Bilbo showing up with some random artifact of world-changing significance and Gandalf sagely stroking his beard and making a pithy remark while internally screaming “WHERE DO YOU KEEP FINDING THESE THINGS”.

And if I show you my dark side, will you still hold me tonight?

Pink Floyd, “The Final Cut"

“My father couldn't warm my frozen hands.” ― Tahereh Mafi

1.Ocean Vuong | 2.Adam Custins | 3.Simone de Beauvoir | 4.Adam Custins | 5.Ocean Vuong | 6.Adam Custins | 7.Sigmund Freud | 8.Adam Custins | 9.Victoria Chang | 10.Anne Magill | 11.Catherine Lacey

I will not be another flower picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.

Erin Van Vuren

WHEN SOMEONE HELPS YOU AND THEY STRUGGLING TOO, THAT’S NOT HELP THAT’S LOVE

Unknown

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Thich Nhat Hanh

— Trista Mateer, “Peaches”

You fall in love with the little things about someone, like the sound of their laughter and the way their smile forms.

Unknown

“This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.” ― Franz Kafka

1. Sylvia Plath | 2. Anne Magill | 3. Franz Kafka | 4. Cathy Hegman | 5. Haruki Murakami | 6. Hope Gangloff | 7. Franz Kafka | 8,9. Sylvia Plath | 10. Cathy Hegman | 11. F. Scott Fitzgerald | 12. Cathy Hegman | 13. Haruki Murakami 

i think what’s wrong with me is that i don’t live secluded in a cottage in the woods. i don't have a personal secret library. i don’t bang enough rocks against enough things. i just haven’t forged any swords

When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets, I'm going to make it.

Les Brown

Loving me isn't easy, I have sharp edges, I have missing parts.

Donte Collins