“Continue To Share Your Heart With People Even If It’s Broken.”

“Continue to share your heart with people even if it’s broken.”

— Amy Poehler

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”

— I’ll Give You The Sun (Jandy Nelson)

the poetry of brown eyes

There needs to be more poetic descriptions of brown eyes in literature, so I wrote some.

It was as if the stars had lent their light to his eyes, etching their constellations into the rich black-brown and painting a sky of their own inside them.

Their eyes held the hue of tea-stained lace, soft and delicate and rich, a wash of gentle brown against the harsh dark shadows of the world.

Her eyes held the nostalgia of summer memories. It was the way they turned into the warmest brown under the sun, like the richest, darkest honey; the way tendrils of amber like the juice of a nectarine streaked their way through, wreathing the pupil in a symphony of golds.

Her eyes were bright and dancing, like the curious ruffled feathers of a sparrow — and as flighty as one, too, darting quickly and nervously away, her gaze fluttering across different spots of the room erratically.

His gaze locked on him, intense and searching. The black, shadowy depths of his eyes shrouded him, leaving him desperately scrabbling for an escape from the dark pull of his stare.

Their eyes had a distinct sense of antiquity to them, the precise hue of a worn, leather-bound book and the faded mahogany of a desk from a time long lost.

If you use or are inspired by these while writing, I'd love it if you tagged me so I can gush over your amazing work :)

Maybe I’ll see you in another life, if this one wasn’t enough.

Florence + the Machine

Ellen Bass, from “The End”, The Human Line

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”

— Unknown

“I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do. I learned to suspect that everyone is capable of living a lie. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.”

— Lynn Barber (via stay-close)

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck

“We may think that we fully control ourselves. However, a friend can easily reveal something about us that we have absolutely no idea about.”

— Carl Gustav Jung

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