Shion in NANA (2000) Illustrated By: Ai Yazawa
call down the hawk — maggie stiefvater
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
— Thomas Merton
*decorates entire life with little ribbon rose buds*
“I taste her and realize I have been starving.”— Jodi Picoult
“ما فاتك لم يُخلق لك وما خُلِق لك لن يفوتك، فاطمأن.”
What you missed was not created for you and what was created for you will not be missed, so be assured.
Dream date: Ghibli movies marathon
… language itself seduced her. She fluttered with the knowledge that certain words in a certain order could rearrange her on the inside, like moving furniture. Words changed and remade her constantly, and no one else could even sense a difference.
— Juhea Kim, from Beasts of a Little Land
All girls in their 20’s should get a studio apartment for free. To live in alone.
“I am a prisoner of a fairy-tale. My own softness chokes me.”— Anna de Noailles, tr. by Jethro Bithell, from Poems; “In The Garden,”
(via rocamadour)
Die Büchse der Pandora (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929)
“Grief will keep you reaching back / for what is not there”— Adrianne Kalfopoulou, “Poem in Pieces, a Log,” A History of Too Much (via catmint1)
Anaïs Nin, from the short story “Elena”, Delta of Venus (published posthumously in 1977)
Margaret Atwood, from ‘Crickets’, The Door (2007)
jane austen really just repeatedly said “the sexiest thing a man can be is kind, selfless, attentive and honest about his feelings” and, as always, she was correct every single time



