Maybe I'll Just Be Fucked Up Forever / Should Have Figured Myself Out By Now / And I Don't Want To Tear

It could all be gone tomorrow. Always remember that.

Unknown

“a guy once told me “a man is only insecure about a woman when he knows she deserves better” and that really hit me”

— lieinlove

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

Leo Buscaglia

“I just want someone to love me hardest when I least deserve it.”

— Javson Johnson, “Building”

Falling into the routine

Of having you with me

Is as simple as breathing

For all my decades without you

My mind finds itself at home

My body fits against yours

My heart sighs in relief

How you are so familiar

When I've only known you

For a mere fraction of my life

Is simply beyond me

Meeeeeee fr

“Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them.”

— John Green

To whom do I owe the biggest apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

~ Alanis Morissette, Sorry To Myself

Help in Time (Charles Verlat, 1872)

One thing I’ve learned about writing is ”give everything a face”. It’s no good to write passively that the nobility fled the city or that the toxic marshes were poisoning the animals beyond any ability to function. Make a protagonist see how a desperate woman in torn silks climbs onto a carriage and speeds off, or a two-headed deer wanders right into the camp and into the fire. Don’t just have an ambiguous flock of all-controlling oligarchy, name one or two representatives of it, and illustrate just how vile and greedy they are as people.

it’s bad to have characters who serve no purpose in the story, but giving something a face is a perfectly valid purpose.