“When A Toxic Person Can No Longer Control You, They Will Try To Control How Others See You. This Misinformation

(source: jonmichaelfrank)

The things that we love tell us what we are. -Aquinas

It’s been a whole week of “I was never good at telling jokes but the punchline goes, I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age, from when your Brooklyn broke my skin and bones, I’m a solider whose returning half her weight, and did the twin flame bruise paint you blue, just between us, did the love affair maim you too, and in the city’s barren cold, I still remember the first fall of snow and how it glistened as it fell, I remember it all too well” being stuck in my head and I wouldn’t have it any other way

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

— Nayyirah Waheed (via quotefeeling)

““Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don’t know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn’t you. That isn’t you at all.” - Leila Sales”

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“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.]