“Of all flowers: you”— Kim Addonizio, from ‘You Were’, Wild Nights: New and Selected Poems
(via soracities)
someone said ‘the version of me you created in your mind is not my responsibility’ and wow
“I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.”— Ralph Ellison
today my anthro professor said something kindof really beautiful:
“you all have a little bit of ‘I want to save the world’ in you, that’s why you’re here, in college. I want you to know that it’s okay if you only save one person, and it’s okay if that person is you”
"I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea."
— Albert Camus (via quotemadness)
— Albert Camus (via quotemadness)










