Tweeted Excerpts From A Field Guide To Getting Lost, Via Rebecca Solnit's Twitter

2023

OPENING YOURSELF UP TO THE POSSIBILITY OF JUDGEMENT IS ALSO OPENING YOURSELF TO THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING LOVED

tumblr is for the girls that always got labelled as quiet or weird

— fatima aamer bilal; coffin heart? bury me.

apple blossomed trees / roots with the birds

Oliver Baez Bendorf, “Everything All at Once”

Do Angels Exist? A Google Search a Week off Antipsychotics, Dante Émile

2025 wants this to be reblogged again!

Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

just want to thank every single one of you for being here. thank you for existing, for never giving up, for trying your best every day even when some days "our best" isn't much. you have more strength than you realize. everything you thought could destroy you until now, never did. you overcame every obstacle. every feeling of hopelessness. every time you thought the pain wouldn't end, it did. so, thank you for being here. you matter. thank you.

Everytime I read Frankenstein, the same line makes me put the book down and stare at the wall. It’s my favorite line in the book; it has its own highlighter color in my annotations. The first time I read it, I literally detoured after my last class just to tell my lit teacher how much I liked the line because I couldn’t wait until second period the next day. Here’s the line:

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

This is said by the creature. He wanted to live. He wanted to live life so badly even though he had had such a difficult one. He still loved the song of the birds and the smell of the flowers and the joy in the world even if he never got to truly experience that joy. I just. AHHHH.

He wanted to fight for a life he never got to live.