who am i to think i’m different than the 100’s of girls you teach

quarantine 

Understand that even an “understanding heart” grows tired of being understanding and never understood.

you have this idea in your head that the only time you’re worthy of being loved is when you’re at your best. you’re still worthy of being loved when you’re at your lowest. you’re still worthy of being loved when you don’t want to go on anymore. you are still worthy of being loved even when you don’t love yourself. you are a human and therefore always worthy of being loved and don’t you fool yourself into thinking otherwise. 

“I’ll kiss you if you want me to.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Head and Shoulders

I want to fill a hundred photo albums with memories of adventures with you

Gisele Bündchen

“I hope it’s love. I’m trying really hard to make it love.”

— Richard Siken, from Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper (via adrasteiax)

Excerpt from Kató Lomb’s “Polyglot: How I Learn Languages”

romanticize self-love. romanticize your fingers on your cheeks, massaging the day away. romanticize your body splayed out in bed sunday afternoons, soaking up the sun, skin glistening like warm honey. romanticize your hands draped out car windows, tickled by the gentle wind. romanticize curtains flung open, you blasting every song that ever made you feel better, giving the neighbors a show they’ll never forget. romanticize cutting things, people and experiences out of your life that make you feel less than complete. romanticize feeling beautiful, affirming your beauty and admiring yourself in nearby mirrors. romanticize the way you speak, with prose draped around your neck and kindness dancing circles in your belly. romanticize your talents, your identity and the pieces of you that you could never live without. say that you are proud, say that you are grateful and say that you are inspiring. romanticize you.

the art of falling in love |(morsus engel)| (via morsusengel)

22 July (2018)

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

John Green, An Abundance of Katherines (via books-n-quotes)