As a society, we encourage girls and women to be emotionally accessible, and in touch with their feelings; we say that it’s an innately feminine trait. We say it, that is, until they have feelings that make us uncomfortable, at which point we recast them as melodramatic harpies, shrieking banshees, and basket cases.
Tori Amos (via holypeaches)
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That Awkward Moment When You’ve Done All of These
An Igloo made of Books by Miler Lagos
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Carson McCullers (via bbook)
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Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.
Tom Wolfe (via amandaonwriting)
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sometimes a deep bend can feel like a break.
but you’re not quite there. keep moving.
i love these scenes. bare trees and gray skies.
me, right now.
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me, whenever i have the house/bedroom to myself.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the one who hated, and this is an immutable law. I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense that once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
