all I do is yearn

I hate how physical touch as a love language always gets reduced to sex and kissing, it is actually the little things… holding hands for no reason, laying your head on their shoulder, throwing your legs across their lap, tracing their palm with your finger, tucking your cold feet under their thighs. just touching because you crave their closeness, not because you want something more. the pure, soft intimacy hits different.

I think true love is when two people make each other love themselves more.

Remember, I love you.

I've failed to read rooms I was alone in

It turns out that you can become the person you’ve always envisioned but you’ll still have the person you were before inside of you and you have to treat them with as much forgiveness and love as possible

The curse of feeling deeply in a world that devours the soft

if someone seriously wants to be a part of your life they will seriously make an effort to be in it. no reasons no excuses.

And once again January. And once again the familiar ache and hope. Will this year be on my side? And if not, will I do well, anyway? No resolutions, no goals. Your life is larger than one calendar year. Let there be emotional house rules, orientations, and guidelines. Let there be cake and books and not staying longer than your nervous system signs off for. Let there be new hobbies and old comforts. Let there be joys you cannot possibly fathom right now. Let there be wins. Let there be grace in losses. And let your stomach continue to allow for spicy food and cigarettes. Smile like you always do. Share your inner dialogue less. Write as much, more, perhaps. Read the books that pick you. Tune out off the noise. Let yourself be bored. And yes, more flowers, please. More dinners on rooftop restaurants on full moon nights. Don’t confuse emotional labour for intimacy. Reduce your exposure to extractive situations and connections. Refill your bottle of water more promptly and let your skin be moisturised. Journal by hand, journal digitally. Keep understanding your body and personality and work with it, never against it. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. More visits to the sea. More letting things be. You’re lovely. You’re doing good. Breathe.

“i’ll take care of you” will be one of the most gentlest things someone can say to you

"Yes I remember" it’s my favourite