healing-is-cool:

You are going to laugh until your stomach hurts again. You’re going to be in awe of a sunset. Watch your favorite show while you eat your favorite food. Find money on the street. Discover a great band you haven’t heard of before. You will find your way back.

weltenwellen:

Franny Choi, from “I Guess By Now I Thought I’d Be Done With Shame”

fairydrowning:

– Virginia Woolf, from a Letter to Violet Dickinson written c. January 1909

[TEXT ID: “I appreciate your concern. None of this is your fault. It’s me. It’s me and my head. / In winter, I collapse.” END ID]

missinyouiskillingme:

We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

— Ally Condie, Matched

ritikajyala:

I know that some days you barely exist- scrolling mindlessly for hours, trying to find some peace. I know that sometimes you wish you could be someone else because your 10 year old self had big plans to save the world and some part of you wants to make her proud still. I know that sometimes you feel like a side character in your own story, written with someone else’s words. I want you to please unclench your jaw and let go of the tension in your shoulders and save yourself first. The sun is still out there and it’ll be there tomorrow, ocean waves exist and oranges taste like peace.

I hope you say goodbye to the ghost of your 10 year old self because unlike her, you still exist.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

thoughtkick:

“growth isn’t always constant. relapses happen. it doesn’t erase all your success.”

— Unknown

mkkyln:

“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”

— Sylvia Plath

lovergirl:

Literally the most life changing thing i’ve read

unchildhood:

AZRA TABASSUM (or @5000letters)

from My Heart is Full of Open Windows;

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