“Her fingers filled the gaps between his fingers. Her love filled the parts of his heart which hate had occupied. Her liveliness filled the emptiness that his life had. Her presence filled the absence created by people who left him. Her kindness filled the harshness he experienced from the world with humanity and love.”
—
MARVEL WOMEN + Knowing their own strength
This is that moment, Vers! Turn off the light show, and prove, prove to me, you can beat me without…
STOP! Let the little penguin cross your dash he has places to go.
I just sat here and waited for a pixel penguin to waddle across my screen, AND I WOULD DO IT AGAIN
Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World
Where can I go and not feel the dread of being alive?
““I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.””
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
““The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.””
— (via goodreadss)
& I’ll always wake up before
the sun so that I'm the first
thing that touches your
face every morning, once
I realized that words could
touch you, I wanted to
become a poem, I want to
fall asleep to the stories in
your eyes & wake up in your
dreams
Sometimes I’m okay and sometimes I wonder how to make the world stop spinning so I can get off. what do you call it when you haven’t slept for a heartbreak or four? and maybe it doesn’t matter how badly I want to hold a hand, they’ll never feel warm. the moon will never skate across the ocean floor. I gave you every single one of my thoughts today - the way I love you has forever written all over it.
I don’t ask the stars for
much, just a reason to smile
every time I look up, I want
all the hours of you, all the
thunderous waves that rewind
us on recall - love is only as
real as hope - & though I
just wanted to become
someone that no one could
take away from you, I don’t
know how I made it through
another year
without you
It’s who you wish for
when you’re lonely; it’s
who you reach for when
you’re not, you’re in my
heart, get comfortable -
I could swallow every
sunset you’ve seen &
still come up empty, my
favourite dreams are
the memories holding
you - the only thing I
know for certain: loving
you is the only thing I did
right this year
I love all the ways you don’t
think about me, all the sparrows
sorrows we’ve used to water
down apologies & goodnights
before the sun disappears,
maybe the heaviest things
you'll ever have to carry
are the parts of you that
are empty, I haven’t washed
the sunlight from my hands
since touching you - darling,
we will always be a little lost
until we find each other
I was either lost trying to find you, or trying to find the reason I lost you in the first place. Nostalgia convinces me you were better than you were and everytime I have to allow you to disappoint me to remember the reason I left.
It is not that I dont love you, but isn’t it during the New Year where we promise to give up bad habits that we will typically come back to? So let’s play a game of hide and seek and I will pretend that you no longer have a place in my heart until nostalgia makes me stumble upon you once more.
Happy New Year,.. but let’s not pretend we magically became more than what we were because of it.
You are the words I have been searching for, the stairway that unwraps each breath with another muffled wish. There are many ways to leave someone, many ways to promise your heart it’ll wear a new that doesn’t cut through its tongue on its walls again.
I fall in love with people who are all the universes I don’t know how to be, and though I don’t mind the passing of time, I mind it passing without you.
Somewhere along the way I became good at holding things without touching them, and when you start to miss me, just remember, I’m only as far away as you pushed me. I survived you, even though I wasn’t planning on it.
Collaboration with Myself (Normal) and @teacup13 (italics)
“All the world will love you just as long, as long as you are a shooting star.”
— Bad Company, Shooting Star (via music-and-quotes)
“A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.”
— Anthony Anaxagorou
