A clever woman is more lethal
than a freshly crafted magic wand,
and this is why she is feared.
She is unpredictable, and unpredictable
is another word for ‘threat’
Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul: Scheherazade The Clever
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It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
- Chuck Palahniuk
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Hey! (with the intension of taking long walks with you)
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— Carolina Outcrop
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When a person tells you you hurt them, you don’t get to decide you didn’t.
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I was hugging Hozier in my dream last night. He smelled like petrichor and Jesus
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afraid of losing you
i ran fluttering
like a little girl
after her mother
afraid of losing you, sappho
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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?
//Virginia Woolf
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love has little to do with blood relations/ and more to do with who you choose to bleed for
Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It
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True confidence is trusting your ability to bounce back from anything. No matter how badly you fail, you know that you'll always be there to catch yourself.
Unknown
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"And that sweet summer, bred by my own hand, would be conquered by now, if you were my homeland."
— Carolina Outcrop, from the poetry collection 'Dreams of June and the Strawberry Moon'
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“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds — but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
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It’s summer now, and you’re craving a simpler existence. You want to read. You want to write.
Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
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