This Is The Problem With Dealing With Someone Who Is Actually A Good Listener. They Don’t Jump In On

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (via the-book-diaries)

Currently having the OPPOSITE of writer's block. I am having writer's word vomit. and I LOVE IT

have y’all ever had communion bread that was just so….nasty? like i know we have to suffer as christians, but do we really need to have whole wheat bread as the body of christ?

You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls (via the-book-diaries)

I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here.

Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak (via the-book-diaries)

You know I’m old in some ways-in others-well, I’m just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via the-book-diaries)

Chapters 2 & 3 are up!!!! I love writing these feisty little first years and their stubborn refusal to all be friends. 

OTP Prompt 99

Person A: Are you.. blushing?

Person B: What, no.

Person A: Did I get the ever-stoic, hardcore, total badass Person B to blush?

Person B: No… It’s… It’s the cold.

Person A: Huh. It’s the cold. And not that I told you “your face is freaking adorable and I bet the rest of you is too?”

Person B: *blushing harder* *voice cracks* N-no.

Imagine your OTP:

Picking strawberries or wild blackberries together during the summer when they’re in season

Relaxing at night on the grass, gazing up at the sky and marveling at, not the stars, but a summer lightning storm

Skinny dipping under the light of the moon during the summer camping trip while the rest of the group is asleep

Frolicking in the warm summer rain together after being caught in a storm after realizing playing in it is more fun than fleeing from it

Finding a patch of honeysuckle and picking and enjoying them together

Going to the farmer’s market or flea market together

Attending a local summer carnival and basking in the cliche of the romantic Ferris wheel ride and the cheesy carnival game prizes

Supporting one of their younger siblings by going to one of their little league games and cheering them on

Having a summer picnic at the park with watermelon and hot dogs and lemonade

Accidentally (or purposefully) dozing off in a hammock together as the sun sets and the air cools down

Playing with sidewalk chalk like they’re kids again

Imagine your OTP doing some underappreciated summer activities!! AKA anything other than just eating ice cream and being hot