thehnyx

be careful with your cynicism, watch how you sharpen your tongue into a snake that leeches all the hope out of your heart and that of others. be realistic, yes. consider all the angles, of course. be prepared for anything, naturally. but take care to dream, take care to wonder, allow yourself room for the best case scenario. believe me, it matters.

road trips are like "which hard truths am I gonna come to terms with while staring out this window"

god my absolute favorite feeling is devouring a book, when you get so into the pages and the words that you have to stop your eyes from skipping lines and force yourself to read every word, when you’re so impatient for what happens next that you can’t sit still while reading, when you have to re read whole pages because you were too busy predicting and anticipating that you missed the actual events, when you read a part that’s too good for words and you have to close the book and scream into your pillow, that’s what reading a truly great book is about and the feeling is even better when you haven’t found a book like that in a long time and then you stumble across one and something inside of you awakens

One of the perks of getting older is getting to have a say in the family gossip