Daughter of the Homeland

Swiftly and without warning, Faegalad drew her sword and turned - pointing the tip beneath their chin, and directly at their throat. “I advise announcing your presence,” she said coolly, “lest you are looking for trouble.”

“I am called Mariel. It is my duty to patrol this area,” she spoke frankly then asked after a pregnant pause, “Have you lost the path, or are you a misinformed trailblazer?”

‘ did it really happen if i can’t remember it ? ’ ‘ but you kept trying , didn’t you ? ’ ‘ how can someone be too young to be in love ? ’ ‘ i will never forgive you ’ ‘ you have been the star of each and every one of my nightmares ’ ‘ i’m sorry if i wasn’t the child you had in mind ’ ‘ i only ever wanted to make you proud ’ ‘ silence has always been my loudest scream ’ ‘ i used to think i was broken ’ ‘ i’ve always felt like a stranger in my skin ’ ‘ i still wonder who i would have been ’ ‘ i didn’t realize i could be my own knight ’ ‘ i’m not scared of the monsters hidden underneath my bed ’ ‘ some names will always be cursed ’ ‘ i have so much love to give , but no one ever wants it ’ ‘ in all my dreams i could find myself picking my teeth out of the carpet ’ ‘ i’m sick to death of everyone telling me how strong i am ’ ‘ death is one of the senses ’ ‘ children are not meant to die before their parents ’ ‘ fate is a fucking lie ’ ‘ everyone i love leaves ’ ‘ i’m terrified down to my very roots that there are parts of myself that can never be filled ’ ‘ fuck the idea that there is such a thing as destiny ’ ‘ the pain did not make me a better person ’ ‘ i burned the bridges to all the things i could not repair ’ ‘ i would thank you , but we both know you don’t deserve it ’ ‘ i bet you regret making an enemy out of me ’ ‘ you can hate me forever if that’s what you really want ’ ‘ hurting others is a choice ’ ‘ you can have my forgiveness but you can’t have me ’ ‘ please believe me when i say revenge was never my intention ’ ‘ i am strong enough for anything ’ ‘ i am so glad we were born during the same lifetime ’ ‘ i may not believe in fate , but i believe in you ’ ‘ i am allowed to live my life ’ ‘ do not waste a minute mourning me ’ ‘ maybe you should start treating people better for a change ’ ‘ it is a fucking tragedy when the world does not stop for you when you give it every last drop of your blood ’ ‘ your failures are just what happened — they don’t have to be who you are ’ ‘ you have to keep moving forward ’ ‘ don’t allow the world to take your kindness ’ ‘ you owe no one your forgiveness ’ ‘ love is never a weakness ’

Quartz Lake Morning by GlacierNPS

J.E.B. Spredemann, Amish by Accident  (via landscape-photo-graphy)

❛ Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?  ❜ ❛ Fear cuts deeper than swords. ❜ ❛ Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word. ❜ ❛ The things we love destroy us every time. Remember that. ❜ ❛ Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities. ❜ ❛ What is honor compared to a woman’s love? ❜ ❛ Nothing burns like the cold. ❜ ❛ Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. ❜ ❛ Laughter is poison to fear. ❜ ❛ Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. ❜ ❛ Life is not a song, sweetling. ❜ ❛ A bruise is a lesson. And each lesson makes us better. ❜ ❛ Sometimes words can accomplish what swords cannot. ❜ ❛ There is an empty place within me where my heart was once. ❜ ❛ Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust. ❜ ❛ Some truths I did not bear saying and some lies were necessary. ❜ ❛ You win or you die. There is no middle ground. ❜ ❛ You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart. ❜ ❛ Is it so far from madness to wisdom? ❜ ❛ Everything is better with some wine in the belly. ❜ ❛ Grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds. ❜

“I will say that I do envy the inhabitants of Rivendell, however, if not simply for how many horses you have here. We keep a small number back home, but travel is mostly done by foot for the paths above are often less treacherous than their paved cousins below,” the elleth revealed with a faint, breathy laugh. 

(via Portland’s International Rose Test Garden | part 2 )

David Viscott (via fyp-psychology)