May 2013
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Crabgrass
blankslate:
I talk about how I have cement in my veins. I speak through my cracks. I feel obvious, but you are oblivious. I’m sucking at the tips of your fingers for a bit of empathy. It tastes like two-thousand-year-old honey preserved in Egyptian tombs. I say, “Nothing is so important that we can’t wait” and then I wait too long and then nothing is important at all. When you put a stethoscope...
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“You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your...”
– Erin (from A Dress A Day)
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the...”
– Stephen R. Covey (via resolutewoman)
“Look past your thoughts so you may drink the pure nectar of this moment.”
– Rumi (via floatingmemories)
“I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
– Richard P. Feynman (via reverbelation)
“It’s really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today, when...”
– Willem de Kooning in an interview with David Sylvester (via andrewharlow)
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”
– Jack Gilbert (via in-the-middle-of-a-daydream)
April 2013
“Love breaks my bones and I laugh.”
– Charles Bukowski
blankslate:
why burn others people pouring souls into words not poetic enough too poetic uh huh you say you want to help you only help yourself feel big you say you want to challenge?- then make something great that will challenge them to be better why burn others to catch the heat and rise- one day you’ll burn and no one will come.
“What she really craved was a connection. That feeling you got when you knew you...”
– J. Sterling, In Dreams (via middecember)
1995you:
i spend most of my time thinking about how people are moving on without me and about how i’m moving on without myself
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to...”
– Charles Bukowski (via seols)
blankslate:
i don’t not want to be around people i want to be around people who don’t mind that i don’t always have something to say or that when i do i say weird things, awkwardly and that i am shitty friend sometimes who equates answering text messages with bench pressing buses who cancels plans like backspacing over a poorly written sentence whose hands go numb in crowds who tells you about...
“Sex is not a goddamn performance. Sex should feel as natural as drinking water....”
– (via ariellavolpe)
