- it's not my responability to be attractive, likable, or easily understood. i don't owe anyone normalcy.
- being overweight saved my life... my body and mind reached for food because the alternative was worse. allow this to just be what it is. my body is a misunderstood hero.
- there is no shame in enjoying and loving the things that make you feel innocent, happy, joyful, free, and childlike.
- grief is normal in many situations. it's okay to mourn things that others might not see as worthy to mourn. it's okay to mourn the things you needed but never got.
- "i'll tell you something right now. i'd rather burn my whole life down than listen to one more second of all this bitchin and moanin. [...] I don't cater to all these vipers dressed in empaths clothing."
- let people create whatever narrative they want about you. it's a small price to pay to be free of their influence over your life.
- if you ever find the white rabbit, the magical wardrobe, the second star to the right, the acceptance letter... go. don't hesitate, just GO.
- women's bodies are not studied enough in medical science.
- if you're in pain no matter what, you may as well be in pain at the beach or at disneyland... -grandma kathy
- "nothing grows in comfort, we all grow in rain, if you want to be strong you gotta throw yourself in pain."
- i'm not a control freak. poeple around me have always just been unreliable, unresponsible, and untrustworthy.
- how i treat my parents when I no longer need them to survive is exactly how they made me feel when little me did still need them to survive.
- "me and my truth, we sit in silence...cause i dont wanna argue, but i dont wanna bite my tongue, I think i'd rather die."
- seeing beautiful art in person can be life changing and it makes it feel like it's coursing through you. (van gogh, irises, the getty)
- heal out loud, you will lose yourself in the silence
- being around children that are the same age i was makes me deeply uncomfortable
- my life would have been entirely different if i had been protected
- "pains like cold water, your brain just gets used to it."
- there is nothing like floating in the ocean. nothing.
- sometimes you're entitled to your anger. to violence. to rage.
- maud lewis is inspiring to me and i feel like her life was beautiful.
- death and the maiden, elna borch, c 1905
- i would be the book girl in every universe.
- comfort characters exist and when you find yours, its like a warm blanket on a cold night.
- FANFICTION IS ACTUALLY SO GOOD WHAT.
- my suffering isn't beautiful, but maybe my survival is.
- i freaking like watching football, okay? it's fun. there. i said it.
- if you were dead already, would you ask god to send you back to say i love you one more time, or go to a national park, or swim in the ocean, or smell your dogs head, or kiss a warm cheek, or just feel alive again? would your heart have changed?
- i am okay feeling dark things. i quite like it, actually. threatening. ominous. scary. violent. bloody. unsettling. still me.
- maybe it's okay that i relate to the darcys, the dracos, the damons, more than the elizabeths, the hermiones, the elenas. i don't want to, but i'm starting to think maybe it's okay.
- you can do absolutely anything for 20 seconds, even something as painful as a uterine biopsy for the third time.
- choose not to respond to subtext. make it clear, make them make it clear, and suddenly your life is easier.
jun 24 2024 ∞
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