SoulSis7

“Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.”
          — 	Yoko Ono

i want to write the kind of short stories you read in english class that are on this weird level of surrealism that they still haunt you years down the road

“And you became like the coffee,
          in the deliciousness, and the bitterness and the addiction.”
          — 	Mahmoud Darwish

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive”
          — 	Josephine Hart

“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”

“If you were given a book with the story of your life, would you read the end?”

“the year of letting go, of understanding loss. grace. of the word ‘no’ and also being able to say ‘you are not kind’. the year of humanity/humility. when the whole world couldn’t get out of bed. everyone i’ve met this year, says the same thing ‘you are so easy to be around, how do you do that?’. the year i broke open and dug out all the rot with own hands. the year i learnt small talk. and how to smile at strangers. the year i understood that i am my best when i reach out and ask ‘do you want to be my friend?’. the year of sugar, everywhere. softness. sweetness. honey honey. the year of being alone, and learning how much i like it. the year of hugging people i don’t know, because i want to know them. the year i made peace and love, right here.

“How many people have gotten older and forgotten about the things they hoped for and dreamed about when they were young? Or given up without ever taking a chance, or settled in life because it’s easier, or they’re scared, or whatever other excuses? How many people need a reminder of who they once were?”

“Be picky with who you invest your time in, wasted time is worse than wasted money.”

“If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.”