Dont Romanticize The Sadness. Just Let It Exist Plainly, Like It Did When You Were A Very Young Child,

[Quotes:Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides/ prayer, tathève simonyan/carole maso, the art lover /Audre Lorde, from a letter to Pat Parker featured in Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde & Pat Parker/Jannate winterson/Takuboku Ishikawa, tr. by Tamae K. Prindle, from The Selected Poems; "A Love Song to Myself,"/Ashe Vernon, from "Buried," Not a Girl/Marion James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf//paintings: Pinterest]

Are you taken?

as a fucking joke, absolutely

cottonbro (ig & pexels)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, from a letter to Zelda Fitzgerald

— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things: A Novel

10 Things I Hate About You (1999) dir. Gil Junger

Fariha Róisín, from Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

[Text ID: “I never fought back, I learned how to cry silently, I bore my sins.”]

She's the Man (2006) dir. Andy Fickman