nostalgic

“She never fell for faces. It was always the sound of life in someone’s laugh that would draw her in without fail.”

Unpopular opinion but an adult still living at home with their birth family doesn’t owe you an explanation for why they’re living there. 

I want my kids to grow up thinking that I am their safe place.

“No matter how much time you tirelessly spend building an iron fortress and crying till you feel your insides are pouring out of you, hiding from the world because you are scared to face its horrors, know that the sun rises in the morning, and so do you. That kind of resilience is tougher than any fortress.”

“A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself, and only herself.”

Your mental illness / disabilitiy does not make you failure

“I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”

“All she wanted was to find a place to stretch her bones A place to lengthen her smiles and spread her hair A place where her legs could walk without cutting and bruising A place unchained She was born out of ocean breath. I reminded her; ‘Stop pouring so much of yourself into hearts that have no room for themselves Do not thin yourself Be vast You do not bring the ocean to a river’”

“He spoke of rain so eloquently that she drowned herself in it.”