HEY.

On Names and Love

Tennessee Williams, ‘The Vine’ from Selected Stories // Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care // Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People // Stephen Sondheim, ‘Maria’ from West Side Story // Naomi Shihab Nye // Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea // Shilpa Goel // Aidan Chambers, Nik: Now I Know

The feminine urge to bewitch someone body and soul

“She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

— On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

Ilya Kaminsky, "Letters", You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

This is heaven

from Tiny Beautiful Things, adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos. 

“Girls should never be afraid to be smart.”

— Emma Watson

here’s to all the weird little girls growing up into even weirder men