"Smooth sailing makes for boring stories. A little calamity, that's worth talking about."
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— Brenna Twohy, "I Know It's a Little Late," Forgive Me My Salt (via letsbelonelytogetherr)
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“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”
The Collected Poems: From a Land Where Other People Live, ‘New Year’s Day’ by Audre Lorde
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“promises sound like destruction”
The Collected Poems: From a Land Where Other People Live, ‘Teacher’ by Audre Lorde
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“You and my bra have something in common; you are both annoying and make everything less enjoyable.”
— Desireé Dallagiacomo, from Sink
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“Sometimes love doesn’t stay, but motherfuck, when it does it is worth every person that ever told you that you were not enough.”
— Desireé Dallagiacomo, from Sink
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“Watch me build an empire from the ashes of everything that tried to destroy me.”
— Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak
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“You are like a comet: every so often you come around to fuck up my shit.”
— Neil Hilborn, “Ballad of the Bruised Lung”
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I get cute for: 1. me 2. to be admired from afar but left the hell alone
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“My depression is a shape shifter; one day it is as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear, the next day, it’s the bear.”
— Sabrina Benaim, from Depression & Other Magic Tricks
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“The word today means amen in every language. Today, we made it. Today, I’m gonna love you. Today, the box cutter will rust in the garbage. Today, the noose will forget how to hold you. Today. Today.”
— Sierra DeMulder, “Today Means Amen”
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“I have clawed my way to okay and it will just have to do for now.”
— Rachel Wiley, from Nothing is Okay
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“there are days i light myself on fire just to worship something glittering.”
— Claire Schwartz, “Distance Is the Primal Fact” (via buttonpoetry)
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I’ve Survived Every Bad Day I’ve Ever Had, Motherfucker!!!
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I’ll get over it I just gotta be dramatic first
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“There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.”
— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (via wnq-writers)
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