"Leaving is not enough. You must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change the locks on a house he’s never visited. You lucky, lucky girl. You have an apartment just your size. A bathtub full of tea, a heart the size of Arizona but not nearly so arid. Don’t wish away your cracked past, your crooked toes, your problems are papier mache puppets you made or bought because the vendor at the market was so compelling you just had to have them. You had to have him. And you did. And now you pulled down the bridge between your houses, you make him call before he visits, you take a lover for granted, you take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic. Make the first bottle you consume in this place a relic. Place it on whatever alter you fashion with a knife and five cranberries. Don’t lose too much weight. Stupid girls are always trying to disappear as revenge. And you are not stupid. You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars. And here you stand. Heart like a four poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street."
— Marty McConnell to Frida Kahlo (via 5000letters)
(via velvetpython)
"I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else… and I will love you if you have a child, and I will love you if you have two children, or three children, or even more… and I will love you if you never marry at all, and never have children, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all, and I must say that on late, cold nights I prefer this scenario out of all the scenarios I have mentioned."
— Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
(via wordsnquotes)
(Source: thequotejournals.com, via wordsnquotes)
unbeingdeaddd:
Do not spend time wondering if you are the type of women men will hurt.
If he leaves you with a car alarm heart, you learn to sing along.
It is hard to stop loving the ocean even after it has left you gasping — “salty.”
So forgive yourself for the decisions you’ve made.
The ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night and know this:
Know you are the type of woman who is searching for a place to call yours.
Let the statues crumble.
You have always been the place.
You are a woman who can build it yourself.
You are born to build.
Sarah Kay, from The Type
(Source: hummingbirdbones, via velvetpython)
unbeingdeaddd:
Do not spend time wondering if you are the type of women men will hurt.
If he leaves you with a car alarm heart, you learn to sing along.
It is hard to stop loving the ocean even after it has left you gasping — “salty.”
So forgive yourself for the decisions you’ve made.
The ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night and know this:
Know you are the type of woman who is searching for a place to call yours.
Let the statues crumble.
You have always been the place.
You are a woman who can build it yourself.
You are born to build.
Sarah Kay, from The Type
(Source: hummingbirdbones, via thatkindofwoman)
"Let’s admit, without apology, what we do to each other."
— Richard Siken, Detail of the Fire
(via thatkindofwoman)
(Source: thelovejournals, via thatkindofwoman)
"I am slowly learning that some people are not good for me, no matter how much I love them. I deserve someone who is gentle and kind, because my soul is getting tired. Realizing that I deserve something good is one of the first steps."
— Michelle K., Why I Need to Say Goodbye to You (via coffeewithfaith)
(Source: booksnquotes.com, via eeevollbre)
