What man wants to lie down and watch the world burn in his bedroom? Your daughter's face is a small riot, her hands are a civil war, a refugee camp behind each ear, a body littered with ugly things. But God, doesn't she wear the world well —Warsan Shire, Ugly
Please leave format credit to 1986! Take care not to invest all of your strength and energy on keeping up appearances or disguising your insecurities when what’s really essential to projecting a secure, confident presence is developing a healthy self-esteem and a kind and courageous heart. “
Please leave format credit to 1986! Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up, and precisely that means that you are alive. And if they don’t, then everything is over with here, once and for all. “
Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I’m heavy, like there’s too much gravity on my heart. — Sarah Ockler
Why do the moons never align? Why do our stars never form the constellations we so desire? Why is there so much beauty in our imperfections that it bothers me this much?