“I know that feeling. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can’t stay like you are for another second, or you’re going to explode.”
— Jennifer Echols
Portrait of feminist and anti-racist art collective Guerrilla Girls
“It’s so hard to leave - until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
— John Green // Paper Towns
“Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.”
— Florence Welch
It’s becoming too hard to exist
I have two moods: Nothing matters, and everything matters too much.
“Choose people who choose you.”
— Unknown
there’s nothing quite like falling asleep with a book in your hand; seamlessly slipping from one world of imagination to another of the subconscious, all occurring within the complexity that is your mind.
“I’m sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.”
— Warsan Shire
“Most days I am a museum of things I want to forget.”
— E. E. Scott, Every Day I Am Trying New Techniques To Make Myself Disappear, published in Shabby Doll House.
Normalize seeing someone's lack of effort as their lack of interest in you regardless of what they tell you. Giving you all of the right words, but none of the right actions is called manipulation. When a person wants to be with you, they prove it.