“The Answer Would Be: I Write Because I Have Read.”

another decade has passed and guess who’s still here? the moon. she’s always been here and she’ll always be she’s a Loyal friend to all of us say thank u moon

“Everything you have ever felt, everything you’ve buried... Forget the bottle. Let your chaos explode.”

“I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.”

— Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente (via compelledbybooks)

Weird how engraving someone’s name on a dagger signifies that dagger’s owner, but engraving it on a bullet signifies the bullet’s intended target.

“Nature is woman’s best friend,’ she often said. ‘If you’re having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. That’s how a woman cures her fears’.”

— Fatema Mernissi (via observando)

i have been fucked up ever since i took a mythology class in college and learned that the greek mythology we know today is not only deliberately patriarchal (i mean duh) but was put in place specifically to abolish the matriarchal religion that came before it, nearly all traces of which were systematically erased. AND, the reason the modern west is so obsessed with greek mythology specifically is that it aligns so closely with our own patriarchal values. like we are literally taught greek mythology IN SCHOOL, that’s how hugely important it is in our culture. (i mean think about it… there is no real benefit to placing that much emphasis on greek mythology specifically over any other part of history)

#so me

walking around the house at night w my cell phone flashlight on instead of turning on the lights feeling like a bronte character with a candle

“If you want to be cruel say you forgive them. Forgive them for the pain, for the hurt, for the loss. For all the times they tried to break you into pieces. No one forgets forgiveness. It always leaves a bitter taste of ruin behind.”

— thoughts #172 | r.m

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