"Oh, you are lovely!"

- "A Girl Too Gay" by Charles Baudelaire
~
My favorite books, author quotes, reading suggestions, and song lyrics

“And it’s hard to hate someone once you understand them.”

—   Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor (via muse)

(Source: quotes-shape-us, via watchthestoicsquirm)

“Soon I’ll grow up, and I won’t even flinch at your name.”

—   Alanis Morissette  (via themoonflowers)

(Source: wrists, via delusionalmilkhotel)

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book.”

—   

Cicero, circa 43 BC (via amandaonwriting)

“The recency illusion is the belief or impression that something is of recent origin when it is in fact long-established.”

(via cimness)

(via contemplatingmadness)

“I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.”

—   Margaret Atwood (via fluffynips)

(Source: articulateimagination, via langleav)

“There will always be a reason why you meet people. Either you need them to change your life or you’re the one that will change theirs.”

—   Angel Flonis Harefa (via thegirllostinstars)

(Source: simply-quotes, via langleav)

“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”

—   Goi Nasu (via lawrencias)

(Source: the-healing-nest, via processofmakingstrange)

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

—   The Toughest Indian In The World, Sherman Alexie (via shelbyisms)

(Source: wordsthat-speak, via youjustgothunted)

“Move forward
and repeat after me with your heart:

“I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hated myself.”

Make love to me
like you know I am better
than the worst thing I ever did.”

—   Buddy Wakefield, “We Were Emergencies” (via larmoyante)

(via stopusingyourhead)

reichsmarschall:

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Robert Frost

(via thisismydesignn)

“People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.”

—   Abraham Hicks 
(via luv-me-tender)

(Source: fandhm, via newkidzonthecock)

“…throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.’”

—   Friedrich Nietzsche (via girlinternet)

(Source: seabois, via griffinkimble)

“Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.”

—   

Lauryn Hill

amen. if you have something to say, then say it. too grown for that reading between the lines bull shit

(via youngblackandvegan)

(Source: cafediary, via loveyourchaos)

“You’re a ghost driving a meat coated skeleton made from stardust, what do you have to be scared of?”

—   Porkbeard (via criminalwisdom)

(via cooliesturl)

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.”

—   Allen Ginsberg (via bluesandbarebones)

(via langleav)

“You’re still going to get criticized, so you might as well do whatever the fuck you want.”

—   Kathleen Hanna  (via cartoonstyles)

(Source: a-great-strange-dream, via anntipae)