in another universe, my childhood memories are sweets and cotton candy; i won’t be so good at running away; i can face the world bare and brave. in another universe, i wouldn’t have bloomed in all the wrong ways. 

in another universe cancer doesn’t exist and you didn’t have to suffer

In another universe dogs live forever.

in another universe, you mean what you say.

In another universe the colors never dulled and the world is still beautiful 

in another universe you’re alive and we’re baking apple pies like we used to do

In another universe, I can still hear my grandfather’s laugh.

In another universe you got to watch me grow up

meeting people & growing apart from them & meeting new people & growing apart from them too & meeting other people & eventually growing apart from them as well & on and on and on

very sad but tru

why is everything so intricately and beautifully connected

together we will create a home with no loud anger, no explosive rage, no slamming doors or breaking glass, no holes punched into the walls so hard that the foundation rocks and cracks. our home will be gentle, it will be warm. i will keep you safe and you will keep me still. no fear, no hurt, no worry. we come from broken and twisted places but together we will build something whole and safe. we will curl around each other like a pair of quotation marks at night, warm and comforted. in the mornings, you’ll sing in the shower again. we will heal, and we will raise a family that doesn’t need to heal.

I love days when it feels easy to find beauty in everything

please be nice to me, i'm in my twenties. do you know what that does to a person