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“I knew what I wanted to run to. But it didn’t exist, so I didn’t leave.”
—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (via quotemadness)
(via heartcountry)
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better.”
—Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
(via wordsnquotes) (via wordsnquotes)
“When you choose to be a poet,
when you choose to spill like this, bleed like this, cry like this, your pain becomes an exhibit. A place for people to walk through and then leave when they are ready. No one ever asks a museum if it’s okay.” —Rudy Francisco, “Museum” (via fuckyeahrudyfrancisco)
“I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”
—Rudy Francisco (via fuckyeahrudyfrancisco)
“You’re going to do
something terrible, you’re going to kiss someone else with that mouth. And I will not forgive you, because I will not know how to forget that my skin is mine but mostly it’s yours. We were charting another Atlantis together on the map of my body, And I’m taking it back now. Your knowledge, my secrets, my gasps when you touch me there, and there, how these new worlds were for you. So you’ll kiss another mouth, and maybe you’ll enjoy it, maybe it’ll taste like new summer or wild berries or something you’ve never had on your tongue before but when you come back for me with your hands wide open I will not come, I will not look for you, and I will not forgive you.” —Azra.T., “Another Mouth”, directly inspired by Caitlyn Siehl’s “That Mouth” (via 5000letters) (via 5000letters)
“They kept asking me, ‘What does the poem mean? What does the poem mean?’ And it was frustrating me because poems don’t mean. They suggest. They enact. They provoke.”
—Richard Siken (via wethinkwedream)
(via 5000letters)
“But what
do I do with all this leftover love? My hands were built for crawling on. How do I write myself gently. How do I not worship the shipwreck that stranded me here?” —Sierra DeMulder, from “After Googling Affirmations for Abuse Survivors,”We Slept Here (via wethinkwedream) (via 5000letters)
“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”
—Vincent van Gogh
(via psych-facts) (via psych-facts)
“It’s kind of funny, how the worse I feel, the more I want to write. It doesn’t really make me feel any different, but there’s just something about putting your mind out there for all to see that is actually calming, in a ‘take it or leave it’ sort of way.”
—a-long-lost-world (via wnq-writers)
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“You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere. And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, ‘Ah. There they are.’ And suddenly you feel at home.”
—Jojo Moyes, One Plus One (via wordsnquotes)
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“I want to care, but I don’t. I look at you and all I feel is tired.”
—Elizabeth Scott
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“I’ve been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn’t like that at all. It is beautiful, but it’s a terrible beauty, a ruthless one, and you fall-you fall, and the thing is-
The thing is you want to. You don’t care what’s coming you just want who your heart beats for.” —Elizabeth Scott, The Unwritten RuleThe Unwritten Rule (via wordsnquotes) (via wordsnquotes)
“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.”
—We Bought a Zoo (2011), Dir. Cameron Crowe (via wnq-movies)
(via wordsnquotes)
“If you’re lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.”
—Ezra Koenig (via purplebuddhaproject)
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“The worst thing in the world can happen, but the next day the sun will come up. And you will eat your toast. And you will drink your tea.”
—Rhian Ellis, from After Life (via oofpoetry)
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 A 19-year-old dreamer who tries to translate her feelings into words and caption her life through pictures. “How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.” - David Foster Wallace |