Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight (via the-book-diaries)

i rub the scratches on my arms. the deep indigo around my eyes. i draw a bath.

hold my head underwater. come up when my lungs flail their fists. i drink in the air

like holy wine, like my last salvation. tomorrow may burn. but i’ll be ready for it.

— Wanda Deglane, from “This Ending I Learn to Love,” published in Glass

I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

John Green

“… The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour and each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words, ‘You are still alive.’”

Rudy Francisco, Button Poetry // I believe some of you needed this; I know I do.

449. Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss (1777) - Antonio Canova, Musée du Louvre, Paris

“Missing you comes in waves. Tonight, I am drowning.”

— From the song by Jason Lancaster.

Did you know what I meant when I said, Do you want someone to / love you, or just this?

Mary Jo Bang, from A Doll for Throwing: Poems; “Dwelling in Our Time,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

“How do we forgive ourselves for all of the things we did not become?”

— Doc Luben, “14 Lines from Love Letters or Suicide Notes”

Thief (1981), dir. Michael Mann

““Kings and lords come and go and leave nothing but statues in a desert, while a couple of young men tinkering in a workshop change the way the world works.””

— Lord Havelock Vetinari, The Truth, Discworld book 25