Which would you choose? Olympic National Park, Washington
I hope, or I could not live.
H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau (via kerryquotesquotes)
I know I used to live without you but that was before I knew the brown speckles of your eyes or the softness of your lips. Before your laughter became my favourite sound and your smile the brightest part of my day. That was before I fell in love with you. Now you’re a part of me like the blood in my veins or the air in my lungs and I need you just as bad. I can’t imagine a day without you and I hope I’ll never have to again.
(via ifthenightcouldtalk)
Writing requires discipline, but disciplined writers are not necessarily prolific. Most good work gets produced over time, sometimes many years, allowing the writer to grow with the material, to allow her world, her command over craft, and her psychological maturity to coalesce at just the right moment to produce something of value. This process often involves dreadful periods of not writing, or, worse, periods of writing very badly, embarrassingly badly. As time passes in a writing life, the writer learns not to fear these arid periods. The words come back eventually. That’s the real discipline: to train the mind and heart into believing that words come back. … Be willing to wait. In the meantime, write when you don’t feel like it. If you can’t write, read.
Monica Wood, The Pocket Muse (masculine pronouns changed to feminine)
I needed to hear this today.
(via savetheteaboy)
And again today.
(via one-bite-at-a-time)
(See also: the Law of Undulations)
Ph:DanSpb
I confess I loved you more than I let on but you weren't ready for it. And I wasn't going to pour myself into hands that couldn't hold me.
Lauren Eden (via: skinthepoet)
A lesson in forgetting: the past always heals faster when you’re not looking. The way we try and hold onto memories like they are more than water. The way we look into the pools of our past searching for minnows, searching for fish. A lesson in remembering: the water is always smoother in retrospect. Where are the waves? Where are the currents? The way in which we tell ourselves we could do it again. Dive in again. Make it out alive. Last night, your voice touched me in my sleep; I woke up thinking about waterfalls.
Kelsey Danielle, “A Lesson in Forgetting” (via pigmenting)