Tara Ebony

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Recovery is terrifying when you don’t know who you are without your sadness.

If there’s no world to live in, one must invent a world and live there.

How long they choose to love you will never be your decision.

Nobody has ever left me just once. They always come back to see how their absence dulled the vibrance in my eyes before disappearing again.

I am enough. Maybe sometimes I have to remind myself, and I have to scream it into my pillow. I have to force it down my throat and swallow back the vomit that my loathsome self fights back with… But I am enough. I may not ever be better than that but I sure as hell will never be less, and that is enough for me.

I remember being young, or at least younger than I am now, and being asked what I wanted to be. kids have ambitious minds, we’re taught to dream big. take over a big company, start a business,  be more successful than our parents. when I was eight, I wanted to be a librarian because I loved books. when I was 16 I wanted to be a writer because there weren’t any real hours and i could sleep till 12 and eat breakfast at 3pm. when I got to 18, I started getting less ambitious. it happens. when I got to 18, I wanted a 9-5 job. something simpler. something more realistic. when I got to 22, ambition was tippexed out of my dictionary. when I got older, my ambition wilted, but it didn’t mean i got less realistic. All I wanted to be was one of those rulers they gave us at school–shatter proof.