Alas

Boys break-up with you and say "I wish you to be the happiest girl on earth" when precisely you were the happiest while you were with them. Ugh

all-women productions of shakespeare plays are so enlightened not for necessarily any feminist reason i just really like it when women kiss and duel each other to the death

"I like spending time with you but I'm not in love with you and I do not want to be."

How rude

my only ambition in life is to have a massive wall to wall bookshelf full of books I've read/am reading that makes people go :O

“Why do we read books that make us weep? Undoubtedly because we never have, in reality, enough to lament. We need to gamble with fire, with blood, with mourning, not because we are gamblers, but because we need to almost die. We need to mourn for ourselves. And yet to stay alive.”

— Stigmata: Escaping Texts, “In October 1991…” by Hélène Cixous tr. Keith Cohen

WHY did I not see that 9 months ago???

“Sometimes life will kick you around, but sooner or later you realize you’re not just a survivor, you’re a warrior. And you’re stronger than anything life throws your way.”

— Brooke Davis

King by Florence + The Machine

Art by Edmund Blair Leighton

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”

— Madeline Miller, Circe

And in the end we are all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love could heal our brokeness.