if not later,

You'll see my face in every place But you can't catch me now

Help me hold onto you…

He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

a stranger whose laugh i could recognise anywhere………. sometimes i wonder how you think about it now, and i see your face in every crowd…….. chasing shadows in the grocery line……….. inside her fantasy, and you’re sitting in front of me…….. i thought i saw you at the bus stop, i didn’t though……… do you ever stop and think about me?

Super Nice Letters on Instagram

the feminine urge to say ‘so true’ in response to every single thing

ik i’m fine on my own but where is the love of my life

It will rise and bloom into a forest.

supercut, lorde

i’m fucking crying y’all

the moon sets behind the temple of Poseidon at Sounion

“We live in a chaotic world where it’s difficult to understand the rules. Because why are some people poor and other people rich? Why do some people have to be refugees, while others are safe? Why are some people spit on on the street? And why is it that sometimes, even though you try to do something good, it’s still met with hate? It’s not weird that people give up. That they stop believing in the good. But thank you so much for not giving up, Sana. Because even though it sometimes feels like it, no one’s ever alone. Each and every one of us is a part of the big chaos. And what you do today, has an effect tomorrow. It can be hard to say, exactly what kind of effect. And you usually can’t see how everything fits together. But the effects of your actions, are always there, somewhere in the chaos. In a hundred years, we may have machines that can predict the effect of every action, but until then, we can trust this: Fear spreads. But fortunately, love does too.” (ALT ER LOVE, 2015—2017)

by scorpio_a7ll

SOUR

OLIVIA RODRIGO MAY 21, 2021

RIZ AHMED GQ Hype / 2020 › ph. Sharif Hamza