Meanwhile I’m continually astonished that people really don’t love each other. How can they do it?
Jack Kerouac, Windblown World
Tag: words
“I don’t let anyone touch me,” I finally said…
“Why not?”
Why not? Because I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn’t come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them and then changed their minds.
Forests of boys, their ragged shrubs full of eyes following you, grabbing your breasts, waving their money, eyes already knocking you down, taking what they felt was theirs.
Because I could still see a woman in a red bathrobe crawling in the street. A woman on a roof in the wind, mute and strange. Women with pills, with knives, women dyeing their hair. Women painting doorknobs with poison for love, making dinners too large to eat, firing into a child’s room at close range. It was a play and I knew how it ended, I didn’t want to audition for any of the roles. It was no game, no casual thrill. It was three-bullet Russian roulette.
Janet Fitch, from White Oleander (via janeairs)
the hills // the weeknd
I believed in too much
too early
and when reality
arrived I couldn’t
stand it.
Charles Bukowski, from The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
(via violentwavesofemotion)
The Weeknd // The Hills
I wonder if your chest ever aches at the sound of my name the same way mine does whenever I hear yours.
(via the-psycho-cutie)
Like sad but not sad enough.
Like attention seeking.
Like “I dunno, man. Most days she seems fine.”
Like laziness and irritation.
Like anxiety but not full blown panic.
Like not being able to get out of bed for three days
but hey, what’s three days?
Like never actually writing out the notes,
just memorizing the lines.
Like it’s more of a river and not an ocean
but as far as I’m concerned
you can drown in either one.
“The Kinda Blues” Trista Mateer (7 of 30)
If I had it my way I’d slit your throat with the knife that you left in my back
Morgana [to Merlin]
darknesstohislight 