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“What's eating you alive / Might help you to survive / And even the nights, they could get better / And even the days ain't all that bad”

- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Me and Mia

me rereading my own poems: what the fuck do you mean by that

“You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first.”

— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”

— John Green

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

Leo Buscaglia

Help in Time (Charles Verlat, 1872)

Help in Time (Charles Verlat, 1872)

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

Maybe I'll just be fucked up forever / Should have figured myself out by now / And I don't want to tear myself open, no / But it's hard to care when you bleed out

Bring Me The Horizon, sTraNgeRs

"it was like something cracked open inside of me, not unlike a watermelon, cool and soothing sweet. I always thought insanity would be a dark and bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it."

- Kathryn Stockett, The Help

And there's no one to love you / When you build your walls too high / There's no one, who is strong enough to save your love / There's no fairytale / There's no fairytale

Alec Benjamin, Paper Crown

"I've tried getting better, did all of the twelve steps / Whoever would'a thought? Whoever could've guessed? / The harder that I chase it, the further that it gets"

-Grandson, Riptide

"Only know you've been high when you're feeling low / Only hate the road when you're missing home"

-Passenger, Let Her Go

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

“a guy once told me “a man is only insecure about a woman when he knows she deserves better” and that really hit me”

— lieinlove

I wish i loved myself enough to leave you.

"Magic cares about what something means, not what it literally is. So when we adopted you into this family, when you truly accepted us as your parents, you became part of it in the eyes of magic. Which is why you've begun to manifest some aspects of our bloodline."

If you want me to stay then make me feel wanted.

when kafka said ‘you wouldn’t believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it’ and when brontë said ‘if you ever looked at me with what I know is in you, I would be your slave’ and when Sartre said ‘if I’ve got to suffer it may as well be at your hands’

“It’s rare to meet someone with a mind just as beautiful as their face.”

— Unknown

One thing I’ve learned about writing is ”give everything a face”. It’s no good to write passively that the nobility fled the city or that the toxic marshes were poisoning the animals beyond any ability to function. Make a protagonist see how a desperate woman in torn silks climbs onto a carriage and speeds off, or a two-headed deer wanders right into the camp and into the fire. Don’t just have an ambiguous flock of all-controlling oligarchy, name one or two representatives of it, and illustrate just how vile and greedy they are as people.

it’s bad to have characters who serve no purpose in the story, but giving something a face is a perfectly valid purpose.

“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.”

— Unknown

“Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.”

— Tyler Kent White

“You don’t need another human being to make your life complete, but let’s be honest. Having you wounds kissed by someone who doesn’t see them as disasters in your soul but cracks to put their love into is the most calming thing in this world.”

— Emery Allen

— Sylvia Plath

“If we lie to the government, it’s a felony, but if they lie to us, it’s politics.” - Huey Freeman

“One of the best lessons you can master in life is to master how to remain calm.”

— Unknown

I had a sense of preparation for a love to come. Like the extension of canopies, the unrolling of ceremonial carpets, as if I must first create a marvelous world in which to house it, in which to receive adequately this guest of honor.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume One 1931-1934, Anaïs Nin

Excerpt from "Springtime" by Noor Shirazie (@noorshirazie)