pride & prejudice (2005)
“You weren’t mine, at least never completely, never for more than a night at a time. You were that light happy feeling between sober and drunk. You were a “tell me when you get home,” “have a safe flight,” “good morning, beautiful” text message. You were never someone I wanted to marry or bring home to my family or cry to about anything at all. I liked you because you were easy and we were happy and light and free. And I can’t even tell you what happened but now you’re the taste in the back of my throat from that last vodka soda I didn’t need. Now you’re an “I miss you” text read at 10:57pm and never answered. Because we let things go too far and then slammed on the brakes when the light was still green. And now we’ll never know if it could have been great or just how great it would have been. And I wish we ended it while you were still good memories instead of bad tastes.”
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I find comfort in knowing that people who I’ve cut out of my life are left with this version of me that simply doesn’t exist anymore. The memory and image of me that they have isnt who I am, and I’m happy that it’s that way. I’ve changed and grown and they wont ever get the chance to know the better version of myself that I’ve become during their absence.
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Only press on: no feeling is final.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Poetry of Rilke; “The Book of Hours”
“Je me suis souvent retrouvé à pardonner aux gens juste parce que je ne voulais pas qu'ils quittent ma vie. Je continuais à m'accrocher à chaque petite chose en espérant qu'un jour tout se termine. Je suppose que j'aurais dû être forte et mettre fin à tout ça. Rappelez-vous, si quelqu'un vous fait du mal une fois, c'est de sa faute, mais s'il vous fait du mal deux fois, c’est de la votre.”
— Nicolas Sparks
“Tu ne sais donc pas que les amours impossibles sont mille fois plus désirées que les banales passions satisfaites ?”
— Valérie Valère, Laisse pleurer la pluie sur tes yeux
Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
Trivia from La La Land (2016) dir. Damien Chazelle
ACTUALLY acting silly is one of the greatest joys of life. if you see me in the street meowing back at cats I see and kicking snow piles down know that I am living my best life.
Born ridiculous, Forced to have opinions on the economy 😔
“Ecoute ton cœur. Il est le seul à te parler de toi-même, le seul à détenir la vérité vraie. Sa raison est plus forte que toutes les raisons du monde. Fais-lui confiance, laisse-le guider tes pas. Et surtout n'aie pas peur.”
— Yasmina Khadra , Les Hirondelles de Kaboul (2002)
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
“She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can’t get in and she doesn’t come out.”
— Malorie Blackman, Noughts and Crosses (via wordsnquotes)
Triumph of Achilles, Louise Glück / The Florida Project, dir. Bart Layton / Honeybee, Trista Mateer / Laughter Lines, BASTILLE / La La Land, dir. Damien Chazelle / Atlantis, Seafret / Interstellar, dir. Christopher Nolan / @poeticsuggestions / La La Land, dir. Damien Chazelle / Remember When, Wallows
One person’s “too much” is another person’s everything. Don’t allow one person to make you feel like you have to hide parts of yourself. The right ones will make you feel free and will allow you to be yourself - the right ones will stay.







