“—in That Blurred State Between Awake And Asleep When Too Many Intake Valves Are Open In The Soul.”

They lived and laughed and loved and left.

Joanne Harris // Cecelia Ahern // Illustration by Cecile Richard // Rupi Kaur // Margarita Karapanou // Miranda July // Taylor Swift // T. R. Hummer // Richard Siken // James Joyce

“I love your name. (…) I pray it into the night till its letters are light.”

— Carol Ann Duffy, from Name in “Rapture”

“Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence.”

— Unknown (via marijuanamodels)

moans get a lot of attention and rightly so but - just someone's breath? hearing it change as you touch them, a gasp when you find just the right spot, getting heavier and faster when they get closer, faltering and ceasing for a moment just before they come, panting, then slowing as they wind down, lying against your chest? i am begging

“But I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will. My whole life.”

— Blue is the Warmest Color

Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.

Katherine Henson

“What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience.”

— Judi Fennell