“The lights are out on all of us. We go on in our dark fogs. Unless someone else turns to look your way & lights the light.”

— Molly Brodak, from Bandit

Caylin Capra-Thomas, “Search History Sad”

“you’re so sensitive” i was born with a poet’s soul. bitch

maybe it’s about going gently. maybe that doesn’t mean everything will be gentle to you, but that you can be gentle to yourself. maybe it’s about the voice of kindness that you use, not the difficulty of the task ahead.

i love you. you made a mistake? i dont care i love you. you made a wrong choice? love you. you don’t think you’re good for anything? guess what you’re good for loving i love you

Just finished hamlet & had to share THIS

“Wait for me as I wait for you. Do not withdraw unless you cannot do otherwise. Live, be bright and curious, seek what is beautiful, read what you like, and when the break comes, turn to me, who will always be turned to you. I now know much more about you and about myself than I ever knew. That’s why I know that to lose you is to die in a certain way.”

— Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance, [July 1], 1949 [#66]

Mohammed El-Kurd, from Rifqa; "This Is Why We Dance"

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

youre weirdly obsessed with finding meaning

"Tired" by Langston Hughes.

"As soon as we die, we enter into fiction. Just ask two different family members to tell you about someone recently gone, and you will see what I mean. Once we can no longer speak for ourselves, we are interpreted."

— Hilary Mantel, from Reith Lectures, Resurrection: The Art and Craft

🕊 ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine — we survive by taking shelter in each other.

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we owe so much to each and every Palestinian citizen + exile turned educator, a people violently forced to plead the case for their humanity in front of the whole world. the burden is completely backward. this and every struggle of people vs coloniser calls for THE REST OF US to make a case for OUR humanity through how we choose to respond to these atrocities today, tomorrow, and the next.

from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free ❤️‍🔥 saoirse don Phalaistín.

LOVE WINS???!?!??!?!

Ritual Is Journey, Chris Abani

“hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me” is the funniest phrase because it always does. it always will. from personal experience things have already started to rouse from their slumber before i even get the first three words out

James: ok you’re gonna be fine. Just try to lightly flirt with him

(Later)

Sirius: good job Remus *holds up hand*

Remus: *high fives*

Sirius: *intertwines fingers*

Sirius: I love you