i wish i could be the person i want to be but im too tired
“At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.”
“You don’t have to have it all figured out at 21, or 30, or even 40. You’ll bloom when you’re ready. The only thing that matters is never giving up.”
— Aaron Mahnke
“Once you’re in a relationship you think it’s going to last forever. But in reality, it only lasts as long as you’re working for it. If one of the person stops working, it falls apart.”
It felt good to watch him slip out of my mind - out of my life, really. Someone I had once begged to stay, I now couldn’t wait to see go. That’s what happens when you release your grip on people that no matter how much you love, bring you down. It’s a decision to let go, to move on, to let yourself be happy.
“I’m sick of it I’m sick of it sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick.”
Simone de Beauvoir, from “The Woman Destroyed,” published c. 1967
I hope y'all are falling deeper in love with yourselves everyday
“And in our eyes the same sadness, like a night landscape.”
— Marguerite Duras, from Blue Eyes, Black Hair (pub. November 1986)