“your skin smells like light. i think you are the moon.”
— nayyirah waheed
I saw an article called “Make Peace With Your Unlived Life” and it really made me stop and think. So much of our lives is mourning for what we didn’t become. It’s a waste. We didn’t waste any opportunities. What came and went was not meant for us.
Christina Rossetti, from Poems and Prose; “Maiden-Song”
my heart is made of baby pink velvet
“With her white hair and her white dress she was so white that she looked silver.”
— Sylvia Plath
I love you. /crying
i love you purple i love you lavender i love you lilac i love you wisteria i love you violet i love you mauve i love you periwinkle i love you amethyst i love you
Enomoto Seifu-Jo, tr. by Kenneth Rexroth, from Written on the Sky; Poems from the Japanese
be careful who you give your sunsets and midnights to
“She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another.”
— Sarah Addison Allen
I'm literally their daughter.
I just want to be alone with the moon and the ocean
I love a song that makes me feel like i’m inside a jar of honey