Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
— Marilyn Monroe (via kari-shma)
“… even though you haven’t made a decision, I think we both know the facts and that on paper, the smart thing to do is not what your heart thinks is good for you. And even if you leave, I’ll still love you. And when you come back, I’ll welcome you. And we’ll go to Flanagan’s. And to Buffa’s. And to Yo’ Mama’s. Just like we always did. We’ll make stupid jokes and I’ll sneak glitter into your suitcase. I’ll fall asleep in your lap… the next time you come back we’ll do it all over again.
You know, just in case you were wondering what would happen if you left. “
(Via My Wish for the Unknown)
GMH →
I just started therapy for a 10 year long battle with Bulimia. I went to the library to grab some books on ED Recovery. Tonight, I opened up one of the books to start reading and an index card fell out with GMH’s site and it stated “Smile! You are beautiful!” It made me cry. THANK YOU GMH!
***See the GMH-inspired Operation Beautiful for more stories like this.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
— Robert Frost (via kari-shma)
warningdontreadthis:notthatkindagay:Kevin Smith has a point.
If it’s going to be at all, it’s going to be with you.
— Yeah Yeah Yeahs (via merricat) (via waitingformagic) (via longlivethequeen)
GMH →
Today, three of my closest guy friends had come to visit me in the hospital. Not too long ago I was diagnosed with cancer and I had lost all of my hair. They came in with flowers, shaved heads, a smile and said, “You’re beautiful to us, even if you don’t think so. We’re in this together.” GMH.
grass stains on our knees and sand in our shoes. sun smiling and our hearts melt with our popsicles. wishing we were 5 again, and playing hide and seek - but i don't have to look to know you'll always be there. carve our names into a tree, and they'll be there forever. or at least a very long time.
(Submitted by: purplepulses)
aw, i like that.
You are like a sunset to me. You’re all kinds of beautiful as you end my day and you sweetly retire as stars chase you away…
— The Spill Canvas (via iamblessed) (via quote-book) (via mytickledpink)
Jack Kerouac's 30 essentials of spontaneous prose
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Fellow writers were always asking Kerouac how he did what he did. So Kerouac set down 30 essentials in something he called “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose.” These tips may or may not make sense to you, but that’s Kerouac, man:
(via smokeandsassafrass)
- Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
- Submissive to everything, open, listening
- Try never get drunk outside yr own house
- Be in love with yr life
- Something that you feel will find its own form
- Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
- Blow as deep as you want to blow
- Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
- The unspeakable visions of the individual
- No time for poetry but exactly what is
- Visionary tics shivering in the chest
- In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
- Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
- Like Proust be an old teahead of time
- Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
- The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
- Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
- Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
- Accept loss forever
- Believe in the holy contour of life
- Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
- Don’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better
- Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
- No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
- Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
- Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
- In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
- Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
- You’re a Genius all the time
- Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
