October 6th, 1915

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

— Unknown

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“I will not think less of myself just because you do not know how to love me.”

— Unknown (via stay-close)

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.

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the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.

if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.

— Julie Anne Peters, from “By The Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead.”

“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”

— J.K. Rowling (Leo)

“The person you will be in 5 years is based on the books you read and the people you surround yourself with today.”

— Unknown (via stay-close)

“The past doesn’t need you anymore. Your future does.”

— Unknown (via resqectable)

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “Other Wound”