East of Eden.

“I hope someday you will find me and remember what I once...

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:15:34 -0400

“I hope someday you will find me and remember what I once meant to you.”

"I’m going to tell you what a demon once told me: It is okay to want your own happiness. It’s okay to..."

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:33:33 -0500

“I’m going to tell you what a demon once told me: It is okay to want your own happiness. It’s okay to care about yourself the most. It’s okay to do what’s healthy for YOU. When someone hits you, it’s okay to hit back and then ask them what the hell they expected. It’s okay. You are not obligated to sit there and smile and swallow every bit of shit everyone heaps on you. You are more than furniture, you’re more than window dressing, you’re not their shiny toy. You’re human, and you have the right to say “That was shitty of you”. You have a right to say “Let me feed that back to you; tell me, how does it taste?” You have a right to protest your own mistreatment and set boundaries for respectful interactions. The rest of the world doesn’t realize you have this right, and they will act offended and appalled when you exercise it, but it is yours.”

- SonneillonV (via peaches-dystopia)

Cats aren’t always jerks…

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:33:15 -0500

Cats aren’t always jerks…

aseaofquotes: Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now Submitted...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:12:56 -0500

aseaofquotes:

Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now

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barackobama: We’re just going to leave this here.

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:14:28 -0500

barackobama:

We’re just going to leave this here.

"#116- “She began to cry. Just crying - the deep and ugly kind, the kind you lose yourself in,..."

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:06:25 -0500

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#116- “She began to cry. Just crying - the deep and ugly kind, the kind you lose yourself in, thanking God no one has to see how rubbed and blotched your face becomes, though some detached part of you also wishes there were someone to see you now, to see and understand how sad you are, at heart. They don’t see it, of course; you’d never show them.”

Sylvia Brownrigg, The Metaphysical Touch

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- (via fidansquotes)

Some things are just meant to be, sad as they are. - Mrs....

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:00:48 -0500

Some things are just meant to be, sad as they are.

- Mrs. Smolensky (Accidents Happen, 2009)

Reblog if you're an asshole.

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:56:26 -0500

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"Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to..."

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:48:34 -0500

“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

- Ernest Hemingway (via paradoxicalsentiments)

I Didn't Write This

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:58:21 -0400

People are always asking me for my advice on life, and I have never understood why because I am just as new to this as anyone else – but still they ask so still I answer, and here and now, I tell. If I could tell you, reader, anything at all, if I could stand in front of you and tell you exactly how to live your life, this is what I would say;

Fall in love on a dirty mattress. Forget your shitty first impressions of one another and give it a shot. Throw out any and all opinions you’ve ever had of anyone and start completely fresh – speaking of fresh, only eat fresh fruit for the next few months. The next forever. Live off green tea punctuated by vodka shots and moonlit swims; find someone to drive all night and scream your favourite songs at the top of your lungs until you come across a body of water completely alien to you, remove your clothes and baby just dive in.

Read a book that makes you weep. Rip it up. Buy a new copy. Re-read, re-evaluate, highlight, come to an understanding of what makes you tick, as defined by the words of someone with whom you will never lock eyes. Come to an understanding of yourself; accept that it will change, but never ever compromise. Speaking of understanding – never “come out”. Never justify your sexuality or your love to anyone, never feel the need to explain it, simply be exactly who you are, come at life unashamed and those who are worth it will smile and know, as they always knew.

Wear your heart on a locket around your neck for all to see, but never let it get in the way of the more important things. These things are, health, career, friends and books, not necessarily in that order. Always remember to make up your own order. Go to the cinema by yourself. Masturbate in front of your lover. Offer to wash your best friend’s hair. Take disposable cameras everywhere and wait twelve months before developing the film. Dedicate one month of your life to saying ‘yes’ to everything you are asked – stick to it as if your life depends on it. Keep your plane tickets, lipstick stained napkins, notes from lovers scribbled on the back of ATM receipts, and glue them into a notebook to document your life. You can – and should – write it all down, but there’s nothing like having the solid proof in front of you, for when everything gets hazy to flick back to and know, yes, that was me, I lived that, I loved that, I am that.

Cry. Cry in the shower, cry on the train, when the tears start to flow never stifle them unless you are at work or in a nightclub – in both situations, if you need to cry, instead just dance. Dancing fixes everything, write that in permanent marker across your forearm during a bad week so you can look down and smile; even if you haven’t got it in you to dance quite yet remember the possibility. Remember the feeling of dancing, and the feeling of crying – if you are at home, dance as you cry, play the music that rips out your soul so loudly that the cars driving past wonder what’s happening. Realise that they will never know what’s happening and that’s okay too. It’s all okay, even when it’s not okay it’s going to be okay.

Call your mother. Pick flowers. Go on holiday. Sink your feet into the sand. Laugh.

Take from my advice what you will, copy every phrase into your journal word for word and pledge to never live another way, or toss it all into your mind’s waste paper basket and write me off as someone who knows less than nothing – either way (and all that’s in between) at least it will make you think. Consider your own options, consider how this world would look best for you, and consider exactly what space you would like to occupy within it. That is my advice to you.

"Perhaps most of all, though, you deserve to be okay. You deserve to know that a day in which you can..."

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:56:32 -0400

“Perhaps most of all, though, you deserve to be okay. You deserve to know that a day in which you can just barely get out of bed because you are sad, or sick, or simply not ready to see the outside is not the end of the world. You deserve to know that moments of weakness do not make you fundamentally weak, only fundamentally human, and that sometimes we’re not going to be effusively happy, and that is okay.”

- Chelsea Fagan, What You Deserve (via creatingaquietmind)

“That’s what I think.”

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 11:23:27 -0400

“That’s what I think.”

"Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it’s awkward. When it’s uncool and embarrassing. Our..."

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:43:40 -0400

“Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it’s awkward. When it’s uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.”

- Jamie Tworkowksi (via an-introspective-heart)

"Picture yourself when you were five. in fact, dig out a photo of little you at that time and tape it..."

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:35:27 -0400

“Picture yourself when you were five. in fact, dig out a photo of little you at that time and tape it to your mirror. How would you treat her, love her, feed her? How would you nurture her if you were the mother of little you? I bet you would protect her fiercely while giving her space to spread her itty-bitty wings. she’d get naps, healthy food, imagination time, and adventures into the wild. If playground bullies hurt her feelings, you’d hug her tears away and give her perspective. When tantrums or meltdowns turned her into a poltergeist, you’d demand a loving time-out in the naughty chair. From this day forward I want you to extend that same compassion to your adult self.”

- Kris Carr (via blua)

"Here’s one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line..."

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:24:50 -0400

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Here’s one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It’s like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there’s no one around to hear it.

You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That’s how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth. You’d be surprised at how easy it is to bust out of orbit, to spin out to a place where no one can touch you. To lose yourself - to get lost.

Or maybe you wouldn’t be surprised. Maybe some of you already know.

To those people, I can only say: I’m sorry.

”

- Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver (via creatingaquietmind)

Breaking Bad Season 4: Episode 3 “Open House”

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:51:34 -0400

Breaking Bad
Season 4: Episode 3 “Open House”

holepunchdrawings: He didn’t open his umbrella because he...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:52:32 -0400

holepunchdrawings:

He didn’t open his umbrella because he wanted to be sad for a while.

"So you will not cry..."

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:56:11 -0400

“You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.” - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

"There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and..."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 01:29:45 -0400

“There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. How many times in your life have you been unable to let in someone’s love or even pushed it away? Much as we proclaim the wish to be truly loved, we are often afraid of that, and so find it difficult to open to love or let it all the way in.”

- John Welwood (via blua)

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a..."

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:12:17 -0400

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.”

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Thank you for leaving behind what you did.
—Daisy

‘Fahrenheit 451’ Author Ray Bradbury Dies At 91

(via npr)