(via lilyangelinajorie)
"He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others — the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad."
Jonathan Safran Foer (via ruineshumaines)
"
Do you know what it’s like to fall on the floor
And cry your guts out ‘til you got no more
Hey man now you’re really living
Have you ever made love to a beautiful girl
Made you feel like it’s not such a bad world
Hey man now you’re really living
The Eels
(via syin)
OMG that dress!: Cultural Exchange and Cultural Appropriation
When differentiating between cultural exchange an cultural appropriation, this first and most important thing that you have to acknowledge is that it’s fucking complicated. While there are no hard-set rules about what isn’t appropriation, there are a lot of things that definitely are…
(Source: barloga.com, via lilyangelinajorie)
"Recognize that you are not the center of the universe. Figure out how the idea of winning and losing fits into your relationships. Be as vulnerable as you possibly can. Recognize vulnerability and empathy as strengths. Don’t allow the fact that other people are assholes to you make you into a bitter and abusive person. Commit to the revolution as a method of psychological and physical survival."
Kathleen Hanna, in a summer 1991 Riot Grrrl zine (read in Girls to the Front: the True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus)
(Source: starswereexploding, via seventimes)
