I Hope That Someday When I'm Gone, Someone Somewhere, Picks My Soul Up Off Of These Pages And Thinks,

I appreciate anybody who reach out to me becuz I kno ima distant person

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them.”

— Veronica Roth (via thoughtkick)

humans are obsessed with escapism - through movies, books, music, art, daydreams. our souls really weren’t made for this world.

“Tell me what you think about when you can’t fall asleep at night.”

— Unknown

“I’d much rather have one great person to talk to every night than have several pointless conversations with temporary people.”

— Unknown

Very interesting to me that T. S. Eliot is often quoted as saying "Good poets borrow. Great poets steal." When in fact what he actually said was "One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest." Which of course has a completely different meaning, less "All the greats plagiarize," and more "Completely original ideas are a fantasy; the originality lies in how you weave an idea that has been previously woven differently."

“One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.”

— Anne Lamott

"Not everyone can feel things as deeply as you. Most people, their feelings are.. bland, tasteless. They'll never understand what it's like to read a poem and feel almost like they're flying, or to see a bleeding fish and feel grief shatters their heart."

- Juliann Garey, Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See

“There are two reasons why we don’t trust people. First - we don’t know them. Second - we know them.”

— Unknown

the little things we do in love are so underrated. simply catching a bus just to see someone, playing with hair more often, bringing flowers, giving handwritten letters, smelling their aura, kissing forehead when they don’t love themselves. no luxury can ever compensate the beauty these things hold.

— vishakha//@penthethoughts