• It is better to be deceived now and then than to turn away one honest and needy person ─── Louisa May Alcott
• Mockery is, quite often, just very confident ignorance. ─── Hank Green
• Too weird to fail. ─── Hank Green
• For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. ─── Matthew 25:35-40 NIV
• I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. ─── Sarah Williams

• phlegmatic : calm and not easily emotional or angry
• lanugo : soft hair covering a baby before birth
• cyclothymic : having mood swings between happy and sad
• irascible : easily provoked to anger, irritable
• opia : the striking intensity of direct eye contact, which feels both intimate and unsettling
• enouement : the bittersweet emotion of standing in the present and wishing you could reassure your past self about the future
• amaranthine : undying or unfading; eternally beautiful
• bailiwick : a person's area of expertise or authority
• vicissitudes : the changes and challenges that occur in the course of life or experience
• limina : the smallest feeling you can notice
• latitudinarian : a person who is open-minded and tolerant
• picayune : not important or of little value

🕮 books

• Anne of Green Gables (the series) by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• The Bible
• His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
• The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

🎞 movies

• Hidden Figures
• Black Beauty
• Ralph Breaks the Internet 1 & 2
• The Incredibles 1 & 2

𝄞 music

• olalla by stephen white

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• I add layers when I regret... does guilt make me cold?
• Growing older means that more days on the tearaway pages of my calendar has me in it.
• Cross my heart and hope to live
• I hate fighting with the people I love. It wears me thin until I feel like a translucent little insignificant ghost.
• If I wanted my heart broken I would have put out a notice.
• Time runs away from me like a waterfall, but I just sit and daydream amidst the roar and thunder.
• The dandelions fell like summer snow.
• How do you bring someone to their senses when they've lost them long ago? How do you wake them up from a dream when their real lives don't exist anymore?

⊹˚.♡ I want to live life with an open heart, hand, and mind. I want to love ceaselessly, to give wisely, quietly, and generously, and to remember the human heart beating beneath every idea. ⋅☆‧₊˚

• sharon, she/her, ace and demiromantic
• hong konger-American, eng/中(canto mainly and a bit of mando)
• a collector of words, enamel keychains, moments of human kindness, and every type of memory
• journalist, college student, hater of ai, devoted reader and writer, fiber artist, with a chronic dependence on human companionship

♡︎: reading, crochet, embroidery, knitting, writing, photography, talking to strangers, exploring all types of museums, falling into internet rabbit holes, being on tumblr, being in love with life

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• Art is so incredibly important. It stimulates such connection, over language and culture barriers, and can carry messages inexpressible with mere words. And I love that great art can never be created with profit in mind.
• A great thing about being able to escape into your head is that you can pick yourself up at any time and fly straight into the sky. You can soar, and soar, and soar, out of anyone’s reach, and they’ll never know where you’re going or what you’re doing. But you know. And you will create treasures that you hide deep within your soul, that will never be shown to anyone else unless you so please.
• I see the shuttered down, old-timey, rugged restaurants here and there in every city and want to cry. The masterpieces once...