just keep breathing

"Please know there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self-conscious.
We are all full of shit.
Go love someone just because, I know your heart may be badly bruised, or even the victim of numerous knifings, but it will always heal, even if you don’t want it to; it keeps going.
There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there,
I promise.
It is up to you to find them."

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Chuck Palahniuk (via fakeville)

(Source: durianquotes, via everythingfeelsfine)

"Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really."

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Harvey Milk

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited."

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Sylvia Plath

"This woman is Pocahontas. She is Athena and Hera. Lying in this messy, unmade bed, eyes closed, this is Juliet Capulet. Blanche DuBois. Scarlett O’Hara. With ministrations of lipstick and eyeliner I give birth to Ophelia. To Marie Antoinette. Over the next trip of the larger hand around the face of the bedside clock, I give form to Lucrezia Borgia. Taking shape at my fingertips, my touches of foundation and blush, here is Jocasta. Lying here, Lady Windermere. Opening her eyes, Cleopatra. Given flesh, a smile, swinging her sculpted legs off one side of the bed, this is Helen of Troy. Yawning and stretching, here is every beautiful woman across history."

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Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

(via thatkindofwoman)

(Source: slightlypretentious, via thatkindofwoman)

"The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science."

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― Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (via thefontanelle)

(via innattheoaks)

rainydaysandblankets:

i’d like to make doing the crossword a habit.

I did the crossword (or tried to do the crossword) every day over break. I miss physically reading the newspaper.

itslaurenslife:

Probably my favorite post of life.

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crawlingtowardthesun:

-pants:

fleetfoxessing:

“Giving Up The Gun” by Vampire Weekend

Covered by Fleet Foxes

Download the mp3.

Watch the original video.

(via infinitelull)

andrewgibby:

I’m never gonna wait

that extra twenty minutes

to text you back,

and I’m never gonna play

hard to get

when I know your life

has been hard enough already.

When we all know everyone’s life

has been hard enough already

it’s hard to watch

the game we make of love,

like everyone’s playing checkers

with their scars,

saying checkmate

whenever they get out

without a broken heart.

Just to be clear

I don’t want to get out

without a broken heart.

I intend to leave this life

so shattered

there’s gonna have to be

a thousand separate heavens

for all of my flying parts.

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options-:

mikhael-julien:

“Would you be good enough to take me home?”

Fuck This Place | Frightened Rabbit

(via carniferous)

"I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech."

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Jeffrey McDaniel (via larmoyante)

(Source: larmoyante, via woooooowlovely-)

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endangerment:

Stubborn Love | The Lumineers

(Source: swalllowedintospace, via ed-ingle)