“I Believe Any Success In Life Is Made By Going Into An Area With A Blind, Furious Optimism.”

“But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.”

— Lemony Snicket; The Beatrice Letters

“I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself did I know who I really was.”

— Sade Andria Zabala

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Kurt Cobain

“And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.”

— Marianne Williamson

I dream of plane crashes on my front lawn

I have a newfound fear of flying

“A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Mt Everest Chapter One: beautiful people

“there is nothing more powerful than realizing that your wholeness is not defined by anything but you. people may add onto the beautiful pieces that already exist within you, but nothing they do could ever complete you. the keys to your acceptance have always belonged to you.”

— iambrillyant

Fariha Róisín, from Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

[Text ID: “I never fought back, I learned how to cry silently, I bore my sins.”]

Velimir Khlebnikov, from Collected Poems & Selected Writings; “Everland,”