May 2013
immigrant
miguu:
you broke the ocean in half to be here only to meet nothing that wants you.
“There are days I want to track down God,
point to my life, and yell “None of...”
– Clementine von Radics (via adderalldust)
“I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your...”
– Charles Bukowski (via 13neighbors)
I try not to miss you, but I remember.
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via curtlemons)
““We are more than the worst thing that’s ever
happened to us. All of us need to...”
– Clementine von Radics (via paperboatsandaeroplanes)
“My memory loves you; it asks about you all the time.”
– Jonathan Carroll (via larmoyante)
“I would love to say that you make me weak in the knees but to be quite upfront...”
– Derrick Brown, Love Language (via humanclay)
oleanderss:
when they told me to not make homes out of people
i laughed
because who would be foolish enough to plant the seeds of themselves in a skin that wasn’t theirs, or in a smile they didn’t own
but when i turned to show you there was only quiet
empty space
and my roots from around your ribcage
“I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.”
– David Levithan, Every Day (via creatingaquietmind)
“It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.”
– Don DeLillo, White Noise (via colourmegreenwich)
“To my daughter I will say,
‘when the men come, set yourself on fire’.”
– Warsan Shire (via ariellavolpe)
“In your absence, you are everywhere.”
– Six Word Story (via imightbeahindu)
“Remember
the sky bled down & we
were running, smiling wide
with our arms...”
– Alexis Pope, excerpt from “A No Good Seasonal Depression” (via larmoyante)
“There are things I’d rather whisper and never quite say out loud.”
– Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry dated 20 July 1938 (via lettersfrom901)
“When you want to fall — fall.
Evaporate and condensate,
but when you rain,...”
– Shinji Moon, To My Daughter At Seventeen (via realityclearly)
“When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say...”
– Shauna Niequist (via melicinthenaked)
“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow...”
– Ibn Taymiyyah (via larmoyante)
