when someone fucks you over, don’t you dare ask yourself, “what did i do to deserve this?” NOTHING. you didn’t do shit. someone taking advantage of your kindness will never be your fault.
Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Bernard Berenson featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn
Oscar Wilde, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde
Tokyo ~ Japan (Unknown year) by Unknown ⌘ Dense city grid meets nature’s perfect triangle
Henri Cole, from a poem titled "Twilight," featured in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker
Joy Sullivan, from “At the Airport”, Instructions for Traveling West
no one talks about how hard it is when your mood is constantly switching between "its okay, i don't care. i'm fine" and "i don't know how much more i can take"
You gave me up like an old toy.
to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you. by A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt