"I want love
that is as
sweet
as the smell
of coffee
in the morning
and as
intoxicating
as a glass
of wine
in the evening."
- Luna C. Lupus
(via poeticmoonchild)
"What I told you about saving people isn’t true. You might think it is, because you might want someone else to save you, or you might want to save someone so badly. But no one else can save you, not really. Not from yourself. […] You fall asleep in the foothills, and the wolf comes down from the mountains. And you hope someone will wake you up. Or chase it off. Or shoot it dead. But when you realize that the wolf is inside you, that’s when you know. You can’t run from it. And no one who loves you can kill the wolf, because it’s part of you. They see your face on it. And they won’t fire the shot."
- Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead (via theliteraryjournals)
(via slipping-away-slowly)
"I still remember you
as a little girl
who overwaters plants
because she doesn’t know
when to stop giving."
- Trista Mateer (24 of 30)
(via flowercavities)
"I remember crying over you and I don’t mean a couple of tears and I’m blue. I’m talking about collapsing and screaming at the moon."
- The Avett Brothers, Tear Down the House (via hplyrikz)
(via hplyrikz)
Self harm doesn’t always happen when a blade touches skin.
It’s skipping meals because you don’t feel like you deserve to eat today. It’s having sex because you want to be used or abused or defiled. It’s drinking recklessly because you might have the ‘courage’ do something stupid. It’s smoking - not because you need the nicotine - because you know it’s bad for you. It’s banging your head against a wall when you’re angry. It’s crossing the road without looking because you lowkey hope a car might hit you. It’s thinking about all the ways you could break a bone and make it look like an accident. It’s not taking painkillers because you want to suffer. It’s taking painkillers in excess because you know it’s dangerous. It’s walking home the more dangerous way because you’re kind of half hoping you’ll get attacked or raped or stabbed. It’s going for long walks at night and getting chilled to the bone and hoping that you get lost so that you can’t find your way back. It’s seeking out triggering material. It’s all the stupid little ways you punish yourself for existing.
Sometimes self harm happens when you put effort into depriving yourself of things you like or need, and sometimes it happens when you don’t put any effort into doing the things you like or need.
It’s a pattern of self-destructive behaviour, and it doesn’t only happen in one way.
(via writtenley)
"I counted each petal
of your lotus flower tattoo.
I only saw what was left of you.
That broke me too."
- There was never enough room for the both of us on your back. (via poetryleftbyher)
"You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches."
- Dita Von Teese
(via safeguards)
(via dontwearfear)
"The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable."
- (via hplyrikz)
(via hplyrikz)