Sometimes The Worst Thing That Happens To You, The Thing You Think You Can't Survive... It's The Thing

““On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.” - Jules Renard”

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“I restore myself when I’m alone.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Be softer with you. You are a breathing thing. A memory to someone. A home to a life.”

— Nayyirah Waheed (via quotefeeling)

“Like a river has no need of air, nor the sea of land, nor the sword of banquets, I have no need of the world if you are not in it.”

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Dulce María Loynaz, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “Poema XXXVI” (tr. James O’Connor)

[Original: Fuera de ti ha de sobrarme el mundo, como le sobra al río el aire, al mar la tierra, a la espada la mesa del convite.]

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

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

They may have said no one would listen. I’m listening.

They may have said no one would care. I care.

They may have said no one would believe you. I believe you.

They were wrong.