the heart is an arrow

and i know no one will save me i just need someone to kiss give me one good honest kiss and i’ll be alright

i’ve forgotten how to say your name without tasting blood | s.m.

Winona Ryder photographed by Michel Haddi || 1993

Edmund Charles Tarbell - Preparing for the Matinee

he knew exactly what he intended to                    leave behind when he was gone;                                                                 d a m a g e

This is a place that you all made together so you could find one another. The most important time of your life was when you were with these people. That’s why you are all here. No one does it alone Jack. You needed all of them and they needed you. To remember and to let go.

drag race meme // eight of ten queens: ✗ Sasha Velour

send me make me choose

Well, fear’s sort of an odd thing. When I was in residency, my first solo procedure was a spinal surgery on a 16 year old kid, a girl. And at the end, after 13 hours, I was closing her up and I, I accidentally ripped her dural sac. Shredded the base of the spine where all the nerves come together, membrane as thin as tissue. And so it ripped open. And the nerves just spilled out of her like angel hair pasta, spinal fluid flowing out of her and I… And the terror was just so… crazy. So real. And I knew I had to deal with it. So I just made a choice. I’d let the fear in, let it take over, let it do its thing, but only for five seconds, that’s all I was going to give it. So I started to count: One, two, three, four, five. Then it was gone. I went back to work, sewed her up and she was fine.