“You were always so afraid. The loss you lived with was too much. Maybe you were born with skin that stung in the rain. Maybe the light hurt you more than others.”— Heather Derr-Smith, from “Traitor”
“(…) too-much and too-bright with survival and softness, and love.”— Colette Spaul, from “London’s Daughter is a Sufragette”
doing your best may look different every day, and that’s okay
you know what’s wild is that all these crazy standards we hold ourselves to are things that we don’t even value in another person? like i’ve never been like “wow I love that this friend of mine is too proud to ask for help and never complains about their feelings” or “my favorite quality about this friend is that they get straight A’s and never get overwhelmed and has never told me about a problem” or “i love that this friend has never been wrong about anything or slipped up and said something embarrassing once in their life” and yet here we are, pushing ourselves past our limits for and beating ourselves up over slipups of things that our friends probably wouldn’t even rank in the top 50 reasons they like us
Praying for the woman I’ll be in 5+yrs I hope she’s happy, and loved, living life unapologetically, doing what she loves.
not a hot take but one direction was one of the best musical acts of their time and their instant success and longevity was in thanks to young women and its because of that same reason they were denied the proper recognition they deserved send post
I would reblog this every second of my life if I could
