I Could Give You The Sauce, The Ingredients, And The Blueprint, Yet, You Still Couldn’t Do It Like

“늦게 피는 꽃은 있어도 피지 않는 꽃은 없다.”

— There may be late bloomers but there are no flowers that don’t bloom.

“Basically, what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she’d fly.”

— The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides (via sayyestolove)

i'm a simple girl: i see sunlight on the water, i find god

“Her brown eyes were untranslatable…She was made entirely of a sweetness bordering on tears.”

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Servant”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)

autumn is really like. i brought you some sunlight from when you were 10. didn't the world feel so bright to you then? i'll drench your hands in syrupy nostalgia, so everything you make is stained bittersweet. i'll ruffle your hair with an ice-kissed breeze--it'll be the kindest touch you've had in years. you finally feel like a part of something grander. i'm the last warm hand you hold before winter surrender.

“Despite it all, she blossomed anyway.”

— iammyss

Normalize castles, crowns, corsets, swords, ball gowns, or send me back to my kingdom.

... there was no one like me and I was unlike anyone else. 'I am alone and they are everyone,' ...

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From Underground

i love being in places where i’m completely unknown

“I found the Muse in myself. And I loved Her fiercely.”

— Annie Finch, from Among the Goddesses: An Epic; “Muse-Goddess,” (via violentwavesofemotion)