"Do you think I’m wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it’s only noon. You couldn’t be something that hundreds of others are."
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (via dorothyhuynh)
(Source: kristenmaae, via dorothyhuynh)
(Source: yimmyayo, via thatkindofwoman)
looooove
my best time
there’s a party and you ask me
not to be there
i spend an hour in the mirror
watching my eyes grow large
as bowls
they fill i empty them
they fill again i empty them
they don’t fill with anything
i pretend i am not myself
i leave myself well enough alone
i imagine being on stilts
similar to a giraffe, just
giving up on the ground
but love is here, that coat of a word
you’ve patted over my back
and i’m not a graceful woman
not even a graceful child
i have no grace left in me
there’s a place where you’ve gone
and i try to want other door hinges
other windows, different furniture
this was my best time, to love another
- mackenzie connellee
(via thefundamentals)
"If they don’t need you, it’s okay. You do not live for other people."
kyo
don’t be anxious about anything. don’t be anxious about anything. don’t be anxious about anything. don’t be anxious about anything. don’t be anxious about anything. don’t be anxious about anything. don’t be anxious about anything. don’t be anxious about anything. don’t be anxious about anything.
philippians four
(via thefundamentals)
there are larger lessons we should be learning, like how to sit across from a person when he or she is crying and how to respond without being too corny, and how to remember what books you have read and how to remember names and how to ask questions when the road is very silent and you are afraid of the answers. and how to stand up without scraping chair legs. and how to keep in touch when you aren’t touching. and how to have fear but very loosely, how to loosen your fears. and how to let love be the choice you are making at all sorts of different turns. and how to name trees. how to write a letter. how to want the exact life you are already living, and how to let that contentment keep you joyful but not static. how to pack. how to walk into a room and claim yourself as you are. how to be honest. how to pray. how to let the past, pass. how to listen. how to cry. how to get up and go. and how to trust time, how to trust God, how to trust yourself. these things.
