Hey. Your Friends? They Love You. Your Partner(s)? They Love You! Your Mind Is Being Mean To You, Friend.

Mary Ruefle

whoever has my voodoo doll pls kiss it’s forehead i need it

“Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved’s hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?”

— Sarah Ruhl, Melancholy Play

hope girls grow up knowing that there are infinite ways of being a woman. hope girls grow up loving themselves for who they are.

“I was your insomnia, I was your grief.”

— Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

creating myself

a new lesson i’m learning lately is how to preserve and maintain my inner peace, to remain calm, to remain relaxed, to exhibit more patience and understanding. mainly while being in environments and surrounded by people who intentionally or unintentionally, will try to disrupt it.

Just because you’re trash doesn’t mean you can’t do great things. It’s called garbage can, not garbage cannot.