(Source: italdred, via awelltraveledwoman)
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
—Lorraine Hansberry, To Be Young, Gifted and Black (via larmoyante)
You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.
—Erin McKean, You Don’t Have to Be Pretty (via larmoyante)
(via remainsimple)
We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.
—David Levithan (via sorakeem)
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(via dunjad)
I have been homesick for you since we met.
—The Avett Brothers, A Fathers First Spring (via youngfolksociety)
(Source: the-season-blue-remains, via youngfolksociety)
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
—Mark Twain (via jesseharding)
(Source: djchickenfajitas, via jesseharding)
I am
a series of
small victories
and large defeats
and I am as
amazed
as any other
that
I have gotten
from there to
here
—
Charles Bukowski
(Hate the dude if you must, but he ain’t wrong.)
(Source: thefreenomad, via thepinesaredancing)
