"It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for. It doesn’t interest me how old you are, I want to know if you are willing to risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine. It doesn’t interest me where you live or how rich you are, I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and be sweet to the ones you love. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and truly like the company you keep in the empty moments of your life."

Jon Blais (via thewastedgeneration)

(Source: emilyebarry, via worldispaintedblack)

"You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (via tongueless-talker)

(Source: dulcetdecember, via severussnake)

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."

Mark Twain   (via sickflower)

(Source: bavarde, via worldispaintedblack)

"Me encuentro en desgracia al no conocer las palabras adecuadas para describir ese momento que viene luego de una exquisita y tranquila lectura. Es un momento que empieza y que no terminará jamás, ya que el ser tocado por la palabras de otro vendra a tener su valor en varios momentos de la vida, no hay que esperarlos, sólo seguir alimentando esa sensación placentera después de una gran lectura."

Daniel Z.

"As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in touch with their feelings; we say that it’s an innately feminine trait. We say it, that is, until they have feelings that make us uncomfortable, at which point we recast them as melodramatic harpies, shrieking banshees, and basket cases"

Tori Amos (via queerintersectional)

(via all-about-male-privilege)

"They simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude is
one of the most beautiful things
on earth?"

Charles Bukowski  (via c-ovet)

(Source: beautyisanillusion, via worldispaintedblack)

"Love breaks my
bones and I
laugh"

Charles Bukowski (via cleopatrism)

(via healthysoul)

"

men

want to fix you
save you
or fuck you

I can’t be fixed
and I don’t care to be saved

"

Jeanann Verlee, men (via fypoetry)

(via maybeifyouandihadmetfirst)

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."

Neil Gaiman  (via addisonislove)

(Source: bookporn, via bigbobsbeepers)

"I cannot stand small talk, because I feel like there’s an elephant standing in the room shitting all over everything and nobody is saying anything. I’m just dying to say, “Hey, do you ever feel like jumping off a bridge?” or “Do you feel an emptiness inside your chest at night that is going to swallow you?” But you can’t say that at a cocktail party."

Paul Gilmartin, The Mental Illness Happy Hour. (via bulimica)

(Source: ongradschool, via bulimica)