May 2013
oleanderss:
when they told me to not make homes out of people
i laughed
because who would be foolish enough to plant the seeds of themselves in a skin that wasn’t theirs, or in a smile they didn’t own
but when i turned to show you there was only quiet
empty space
and my roots from around your ribcage
“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost...”
– I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (via prettybooks)
“Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.”
– Frank Ocean (via obsessivly)
“It’s like when someone says, ‘How are you?’ Do you say, ‘Well, my head hurts and...”
– Sara Shepard, The Visibles (via 15pages)
“It’s scary how people leave scars on you; how certain people will never really...”
– Elay Neal Moses (via perfect)
“Nothing hurts a good soul and the kind heart more than to live amongst people...”
– Ali Ibn Abi Talib (via buddhacoffee)
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via girlwithoutwings)
“Go away. I’m all right.”
– H. G. Wells’ final words (via buddhacoffee)
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
– A.A. Milne (via claude-sama)
Ever noticed how your body is trying to keep you...
When you hurt yourself and don’t put a band-aid on it because you think you deserve the pain
Your body creates a natural band-aid to keep you protected.
When you want to tear open your skin
Your skin fights back, creates a tough skin of scar tissue to prevent it happening again.
When you take all those...
“I taste her and realize I have been starving.”
– (via i-luv-tmblr-slutz)
“You cut up a thing that’s alive and beautiful to find out how it’s alive and why...”
– Clive Barker (via tat-art)
“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via perfect)
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are...”
– Lao Tzu (via perfect)
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via genesus)
“It’s like when someone says, ‘How are you?’ Do you say, ‘Well, my head hurts and...”
– Sara Shepard, The Visibles (via 15pages)
April 2013
“That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience...”
– Kaui Hart Hemmings (via viage)
“After spending all day in school, our children are forced to begin a second...”
– Alfie Kohn, The Case Against Homework (via enpleinalair)
Sometimes you meet someone and even though you never liked brown eyes before, their eyes are your favourite colour now and sometimes you meet someone who can make the sickest addictions seem beautiful and sometimes there’s some people you’d rather sit on a couch with and drink some gas station coffee and read your favourite books over and over while you forget that dinners on the stove so it...
“When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via mirroir)
“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
– Vincent Van Gogh (via conor-broberst)
greater-reality:
Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but
nothing is infinite, not even loss.
You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day you are...
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived,...”
– Buddhist Saying (via thelenaubr)
