I love being horribly straightforward. I love sending reckless text messages (because how reckless can a form of digitized communication be?) and telling people I love them and telling people they are absolutely magical humans and I cannot believe they really exist. I love saying, “Kiss me harder,” and “You’re a good person,” and, “You brighten my day.” I live my life as straight-forward as possible.

Because one day, I might get hit by a bus.

Maybe it’s weird. Maybe it’s scary. Maybe it seems downright impossible to just be—to just let people know you want them, need them, feel like, in this very moment, you will die if you do not see them, hold them, touch them in some way whether its your feet on their thighs on the couch or your tongue in their mouth or your heart in their hands.

But there is nothing more beautiful than being desperate.

And there is nothing more risky than pretending not to care.

We are young and we are human and we are beautiful and we are not as in control as we think we are. We never know who needs us back. We never know the magic that can arise between ourselves and other humans.

We never know when the bus is coming.

Rachel C. Lewis, Tell The People You Love That You Love Them 

I spoke to you in

poetry and you spoke to

me in thunder storms.

-Y.Z.

There will come a time when you want to cut off all your hair. Do it. Realise that the thing you want rid of doesn’t lie in the long curls that frame your face so perfectly. Live with short hair for a while. It’ll grow.

You won’t always want to talk to people. That’s okay. When it’s late and you hear your friends talking in the next room, you don’t have to join them. You’re allowed your solitude. It makes company sweeter and it teaches you how to survive alone. You will need that skill.

In the winter, you’ll believe that nothing will ever grow again. You’re wrong. Every year, London looks like it’s on its last legs, wheezing through those last cold days in March. Every year, spring comes like an explosion and the city shakes off its sleep.

Mundane problems will get the better of you sometimes. Don’t worry. Try as you might, life cannot be an endless, beautiful, intense moment. Find comfort in money worries and late trains; they’re a welcome rest in between heartbreaks and breakdowns.

People will call you a cynic, a wry smile on their faces. Pay them no mind. You alone know that you are capable of a love greater than anything they can comprehend. You alone know that you are not willing to sell your identity and respect to the first smirking halfwit to pass by. It is not cynicism. It is reverence for your own vast and fathomless heart, and it makes sense only to love someone who understands that and is awed by it.

You will not always get what you want when you want it. Accept it. Your goals are not set in stone and you are not on a fixed trajectory. Sometimes, life will take its time and you will have to play the long, interminable game. Play it well and with as much grace as you can muster. Live at your own pace.

At night, you will occasionally wake up afraid, wanting to die. Don’t give in. Night plays its tricks, but you are not so easily fooled. Your mind will play its tricks, too. It will make you believe that you’re not who you are, but you must not give in. You take a breath and you tell yourself that you are here. That you always were.

-Practical Advice for Difficult Women (#20 - 9th December)

"Have you ever felt a potential love for someone?

Like, you don’t actually love them and you know you don’t, but you know you could. You realise that you could easily fall in love with them. It’s almost like the bud of a flower, ready to blossom but it’s just not quite there yet. And you like them a lot, you really do. You think about them often, but you don’t love them. You could, though. You know you could."
(via Pantone 429 C)

“I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.” ― Nelson Mandela

Write like a motherfucker.

(via TKOW)

Waris Ahluwalia

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change."
-Charles Darwin

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for talk beside the fire: it is the time for home."
-Edith Sitwell

#Pavi

"The worst feeling ever is not knowing whether you should wait or give up."
-Jeden Tag

Women like me do not fall gracefully,
we stumble over our spines, trip over
our vowels, and collapse into your arms.

Our hearts are open books,
Russian novels containing fifty pages
on the way your voice drifts across
the telephone wires each night.
Our hearts are first drafts,
unedited verses about each and every
person we have ever loved: the stranger
on the subway, the girl who gave us a balloon,
the boy who stole our virginity
but not our heart.

Women like me will love you from a distance
of a thousand syllables while laying in your bed,
we will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible,
and when we leave you will finally understand
why storms are named after people.

-Katrina, M.K.

“There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they’re good, or bad, or anything really. You just love them. It doesn’t mean you’ll be together forever. It doesn’t mean you won’t hurt each other. It just means you love them. Sometimes in spite of who they are, and sometimes because of who they are. And you know that they love you, sometimes because of who you are, and sometimes in spite of it.” - Laurell K Hamilton

We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." 
-Fight Club 

"How could you possibly love her? You don't even know her favorite book."
-John Acker

"Just because this isn't in your life plan, doesn't mean this isn't exactly where you're supposed to be." -Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23

"Notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

The Big Move

Snape

I know sometimes
it’s still hard to let me see you
in all your cracked perfection,
but please know:
whether it’s the days you burn
more brilliant than the sun
or the nights you collapse into my lap
your body broken into a thousand questions,
you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
I will love you when you are a still day.
I will love you when you are a hurricane.

- Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers  (via AWTW)

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. -Unknown

(via AWTW)

"Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple..."
-JK Rowling, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t last. You might think you love someone until you see the way they act when they’re out of money or under pressure or hungry, for goodness’ sake. Love is something different. Love is choosing to serve someone and be with someone in spite of their filthy heart. Love is patient and kind, love is deliberate. Love is hard. Love is pain and sacrifice, it’s seeing the darkness in another person and defying the impulse to jump ship. -A Common Brokenness

Endless (via TKoW)

"Just for the record, I am your knight in shining whatever."
-Derek Shepherd, Grey's Anatomy 

#Seahawks

"I have found, in my travels, that men's razors, men's deodorant, and men's watches are better than women's." -Mindy Kaling

Keira in Vogue

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. After my father died, the book that sort of saved my life was Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. Because of that experience, I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enables you to live, to do something. And sometimes, human beings need story and narrative more than they need nourishment and food."
-Emma Thompson

"For each person there is a sentence - a series of words - which has the power to destroy them." -Philip K. Dick

"I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone's life has been hard enough already, it's hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone's playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart." -Andrea Gibson

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jolene

"Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark." -N'Tima

London

I know I'm too much
and loving me can be hard,
but I am worth it.
-Tyler Knott Gregson

The Laughing Heart 
             

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.
               -Charles Bukowski

Tarun Tahiliani (via TKoW)

I remember I was suffering from jetlag. I fell asleep early and woke up in the middle of the night. I had been thinking about going to your room, I wanted to say hi. I wanted to curl up next to you, press the palm of my hand to your torso, and slide my fingers over to your hip. But I knew that was only a fantasy. One most likely born out of a barely explored desire. So I rolled over and forced myself back to sleep. When I awoke, you were gone. 

Trout Creek

A month ago, my mom and I drove to Montana to pick up the newest member of our family. Pavi is loving his new life and now it's as though he's been here forever.

"We accept the love we think we deserve" - The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk.You'll find what you need to find. Just read." -Neil Gaiman

"Some men aren't meant to be happy, they're meant to be great." -Scandal

J.K. Rowling's plan for Order of the Phoenix

"I bet if we dusted her heart for fingerprints, we'd only find yours."
-Rudy Francisco

Kolkata Durga

Pavitra "Pavi"

One of my favorites

Elomi

"Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen." -Frances Hodgson Burnett

"If you're really interested in peace, you negotiate with anyone." 
-The West Wing

Heathers

Breakfast

"I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself."
-Amy Hempel

#Inuyasha

Paris vs. New York

Romeo & Juliet

Veggie Chart

Can't wait for The Moon and More!

A Kumari's Prayer

"O God above! For the remaining sunsets of my life,

May my eyes drink in the sight of him."

Ah! What sweet content,
To sway with you till summer's end
-Kumari Loves a Monster

"You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are." -Max Lucado

Mary Kate & Ashley

Pink hair

vintage perfume bottles

Appointment in Samarra

There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening gesture; now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me. The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. Then the merchant went down to the market-place and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said, Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning? That was not a threatening gesture, I said, it was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

"Relationships begun in a period of mourning can be fun, helpful, tender, beautiful, and very meaningful, as well as short-lived and totally illogical" 
-Thought Catalog

"I want you to crave me. From my lips, up to my words." -J.E.

Delhi