can i get a hell yea if you’re still gonna be wasting your time on this website in 2014
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“Lyanna was beautiful,” Arya said, startled. Everybody said so. It was not a thing that was ever said of Arya.
“She was,” Eddard Stark agreed, “beautiful, and willful, and dead before her time.”
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but will the horrors survive me???
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literally every day i say to myself “wow i’m having a really bad one today” like girl i think this is just your life.
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I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
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“Summer arrives in a strawberry, sweet, juicy. As long as you feel its flesh on your tongue you’re unaware how. One minute inches into the next. But how could you observe awareness anyway? Or, for that matter, a thought? It grows in you, not as a sensation. (Nor like a baby or tumor.) An experience that you can’t hold on to. Any more than to the smell of lilac. Though it soothes emptiness.”
— Rosmarie Waldrop, from “Asymmetry (2)”, The Nick of Time: Poems
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the deathly hallows + posters
“The Elder Wand,” he said, and he drew a straight vertical line on the parchment. “The Resurrection Stone,” he said, and he added a circle on top of the line. “The Cloak of Invisibility,” he finished, enclosing both line and circle in a triangle, to make the symbol that so intrigued Hermione. “Together,” he said, “the Deathly Hallows.”
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I am hungry for touch
& ashamed to be looked at
— Safia Elhillo, from "Summer," Girls That Never Die
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yall ever just yearn? ever get filled with the most profound sense of longing for something you cant understand? yall ever crave? ever have an unexplainable ache?
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the ocean as a metaphor ALWAYS slaps. the ocean as a hungry force that wants to consume you? the ocean as something vast and unknowable, like a god itself? the ocean as freedom and liberation? the ocean as the mysteries of the self? the ocean as love? never fails to get me
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