la petite reveuse

feet on the ground, head in the clouds
downlikehoney:

“like someday you’ll find out just how many there are and we all can go home cause there’s nothing as sad as a man on his back counting stars”

downlikehoney:

like someday you’ll find out
just how many there are
and we all can go home
cause there’s nothing as sad
as a man on his back
counting stars

You have my permission not to love me;
I am a cathedral of deadbolts
and I’d rather burn myself down
than change the locks.

—Rachel McKibbens, “Letter From My Brain To My Heart” (via brave-and-kind)

(Source: kaseynese, via brave-and-kind)

hello, world.

hello, world.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

—Ernest Hemingway

(Source: larmoyante, via brave-and-kind)

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i’m ripe for a mental illness diagnosis.

i’ve become so comfortable in my emptiness.

home sweet home, california

home sweet home, california

the view from bernal heights hill

the view from bernal heights hill

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

—Sylvia Plath