#light academia quotes
We have found out forever
That blood smells only of blood.
Something about angel wings-
Much about a broken heart.
How slow life seems to me,
How violent the hope of love can be.
It should be enough.
To make something beautiful should be enough.
It isn’t.
It should be.
I- so imperfect, so weak,
So unbelievably lonely.
I had a very childlike rage
And a very childlike loneliness.
And if the devil was ever to see you,
He’d kiss your eyes and repent.
What do you seek?
I don’t belong here
But my beloved, neither do you.
Goodbye, my almost lover.
Goodbye, my hopeless dream.
Your hands on my back,
Slow tenderness to soothe me.
How did you learn all this?
I keep remembering- I keep remembering.
My heart has no pity on me.
If you must die, I’ll envy the earth
That wraps around your body.
You have known that I love you for so long.
Why do you torture me?
Tell me again about the part
Where grief is not my name.
Shameless and callous I love you.
Out of indifference I love you.
But the gods wanted you,
The gods wanted you back.
Speak of her over my grave
And watch how she brings me to life.
How much must be forgotten, out of love.
How much must be forgiven, even love.
On the edge of madness
Why are you full of rage?
Because you are full of grief.
Ocean Vuong, “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
Messy hair, smudged makeup, wrinkled clothes, chipped nail varnish, stained fingertips, chapped lips, mix-match socks, annotated books, clashing aesthetics, dried flowers, scribbled handwriting, voice cracks, bruises, acne, body hair, early mornings, late nights, unmade beds, loud music, soft touches
Very much in the mood to go to a bookstore carrying a warm drink in a stryrofoam cup whilst it’s raining outside
“I shall bow to no one except my own portrait. ”
- the moment I realised my virtue
Dorian Grey be like…
Reblog this with human things you find beautiful
• When people smile so wide, creases appear on their face. It’s like they’re so happy that they can’t keep it in
• Tanlines and age spots and freckles and scars and stretch marks and acne. Chapped lips, bleary eyes, broken nails, split ends. Anything that marks us as human and vulnerable and brave.
• h a n d s
• A stomach that has lots of rolls or none at all!!!!! It makes me so happy to think that that’s the place where your favourite foods are!!!!!!
It’s 2020, it’s time to stop putting so much importance and value on physical beauty. What is beauty, anyway? Everyone has a different definition of it. Stop judging others and stop judging yourself for their beauty not fitting into your version of it.
WE are beautiful and WE are radiant and no I don’t accept criticism
“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”
Kazuo Ishiguro, in his Nobel Prize (2017) acceptance speech
It is is better to know one book intimately
than a hundred superficially.
Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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May flowers grow in the saddest parts of you.
