Katie

Leila Chatti, from “Tea”

i am her, she is me

Please take the time to love. Please practice love to and for yourself. Especially when it is difficult, especially when it seems pointless, especially when it would be easier to harm yourself in whatever creative way you can. When no one else will love you, love you.

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

By LabradoriteKing on Pinterest

Chop chop.

this is terrifying. i love it

let me relax……………will comment later…………………..

#real

Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game 

— Sylvia Plath - Taken From ‘The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath’ February, 1956

Jazmine Hughes

- Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

Ilya Kaminsky, “While the Child Sleeps Sonya Undresses” / Joni Mitchell, All I Want / John Edmonds, “Men Like Us,” New York Times Style Magazine / u/expensivetill9 on Reddit / Mitski, I Will / Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe / David Hockney, Domestic Scene / Elizabeth Bishop, “The Shampoo” / Homer, The Odyssey

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

[ Text ID: and how many times have you loved me without my asking? / how often have i loved a thing because you loved it? / including me. ] 

He loves history. He wanted to write a biography of John Quincy Adams. I, shamefully, knew almost nothing about John Quincy Adams, so I went online and bought every biography of him I could find. One day, he called me, claiming that we wouldn’t work out long term. He said he loved me but that we had different interests. “What does love mean to you?” I said. “That’s an impossible question,” he replied. I, however, find love to be quite simple. Love is the stack of biographies on my nightstand with a bookmark near the end. — Julia Nicole Camp