i’m here to tell you that life does get better once you acknowledge that there’s nobody more deserving of a wonderful existence other than you and you do everything you can to give yourself that, with clean intentions all the way, an open heart, and belief that everything will work out how you want. amen.
Emily Dickinson in a letter to Catherine Sweetser wr. c. February 1870
Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
The amount of time and trial and error that happens between when you realize you need to change and when you actually start digging your heels in and making those changes is often literal years which is so crazy cause we can know something for so long and refuse to let it sink in when we know it will deeply disrupt our lifestyles and comforts/crutches so it just prevails for so much longer than we could ever imagine even when we realized so long ago what was wrong we just back pedal when we are scared until something just cracks and we feel ready
Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters
Introduction to The Iliad, Emily Wilson
task manager kill this man
Face To Face (1976) dir. by Ingmar Bergman
Sara Teasdale, from The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale; "The Wind,"
Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath; "Three Women,"
I long for a large room to myself, with books and nothing else, where I can shut myself up, and see no one, and read myself into peace.
Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson dated 30 October 1904; from Virginia Woolf: The Complete Collection
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via haru-ocha)
Connect three houses to water, gas, and electricity.
“The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment you absolutely and utterly have to walk away.”
— Alyssia Harris
Too often
