It’s really lovely how laughter just loosens the mind, opens the curtains

Your great-great-great grandfather was a vampire. However, the vampire genes are so diluted all it means is you’re mildly annoyed by crosses, are allergic to garlic, and get sunburned easily.

“Vampire help hotline, what can I do for you?” “I just… I miss garlic bread…”

“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”

— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

tbh the more time you spend around open, wild bodies of water like rivers, lakes and seas the more you begin to understand why pretty much every culture in the world has a similar eerie, hypnotically beautiful yet terrifying temptress figure who lures people into the depths to drown them and/or eat them in its folklore representing the seductive call of the water. it really is just like that.

i want someone to keep a picture of me tucked inside a heart shaped locket but noo it’s always “what’s ur insta?”

“If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.”

— Ruthie Lindsey

Luna Lu: 'The Anatomy of a Hug' (2016)

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

— John Green.

3 core beliefs of be kind be weird eat berries

academic validation from maths and english professors >>>>>

not to be dramatic or anything, but if someone kissed the inside of my wrist, I'd simply dissolve.