“When They Took Everything From You, You Found A Way To Make Something From Nothing.”

be the person your dog thinks you are.

“I needed to be somewhere different. Maybe I needed to be someone different, too.”

— Heather Davis; The Clearing

Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: Five Heroic Journeys to Emotional Recovery

only icons get panic attacks on their birthday

it’s me i am an icon 💅💅💅

“Words are so powerful. They can crush a heart, or heal it. They can shame a soul or liberate it. They can shatter dreams or energize them. They can obstruct connection or invite it. They can create defenses, or melt them. We have to use our words wisely.”

— Jeff Brown

The sun, the moon. Kai and Cinder from The Lunar Chronicles.

most of the time i do not love my family, I do not cherish the hurt and fear they forced me into, but on some days we all come together and we cook and eat and play and i see my little cousins and nieces and nephews and i realise I am now my mother, my aunts, my grandmas, i remember when I was little and my much older cousins would lift me up and toss me in the air and shake me around and I would tell and giggle and love and admire them because they were so much bigger, older, stronger, wiser, and now that I am the age they were at the time i realise they were not any less of a bunch of kids than I was, and i do not feel big, or old, or strong, or wise, except for when I hold the children's little hands as they run around and ask big questions and I know that role is mine now, and i want it and cherish it and it comes so natural, and i say the same words and do the same things and play the same pranks and tell the same jokes, and i feel that maybe if these kids are safe and happy and at peace, then my scared, traumatised little self can rest too, maybe she can heal playing with them, and maybe I wasn't the horrible, unlovable monster they convinced me I was, maybe I was no different than my little niece sitting in the sand and starlight and asking me why the sea is yellow, because she doesn't yet know that there is no magic in the light from the lampposts reflecting on the water.

Hogwarts is obviously REAL.