HOPE SURVIVES.

“I’m not telling you to make the world better I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it."

“My veins are filled with stories of survival.”

are you worried

love the "oh. oh." moment in fics as much as the next person but can i also advocate for "stay?" reaching out to grasp for their wrist. the surprise, the anticipation, the acceptance... a confession disguised as a request.

“My head is bloody, but unbowed.”

“I have learned to be brave.”

“One day I said to myself — deep down inside my soul I said — so very soft that even God himself could barely hear — One day I said to myself that I was determined to get my share of happiness.”

All my grief says the same thing— this isn't how it's supposed to be. And the world laughs, holds my hope by my throat, says: but this is how it is.