heart like a canvas

"I’m going to tell you what a demon once told me: It is okay to want your own happiness. It’s okay to care about yourself the most. It’s okay to do what’s healthy for YOU. When someone hits you, it’s okay to hit back and then ask them what the hell they expected. It’s okay. You are not obligated to sit there and smile and swallow every bit of shit everyone heaps on you. You are more than furniture, you’re more than window dressing, you’re not their shiny toy. You’re human, and you have the right to say “That was shitty of you”. You have a right to say “Let me feed that back to you; tell me, how does it taste?” You have a right to protest your own mistreatment and set boundaries for respectful interactions. The rest of the world doesn’t realize you have this right, and they will act offended and appalled when you exercise it, but it is yours."

— SonneillonV (via invinciblemonsters)

2 weeks ago with 58998 notes — via damelola, © sonneillonv

#forgiveness doesn't just sit there like a pretty boy in a bar #twenty four

Hey, love.

1 month ago with 3 notes

#no one could love me more #forgiveness doesn't just sit there like a pretty boy in a bar

classnumberten:

REPEAT

milkstudios:

Goodnight.

1 month ago with 1209 notes — via damelola, © milkstudios

#forgiveness doesn't just sit there like a pretty boy in a bar

"‎People wonder why women don’t “fight back,” but they don’t wonder about it when women back down in arguments, are interrupted, purposefully lower and modulate their voices to express less emotion, […] They don’t wonder about all those daily social interactions in which women are quieter, ignored, or invisible, because those social interactions seem normal."

—

Harriet J

(via ceasesilence)

1 month ago with 3167 notes — via eshusplayground, © lesshumansmorecats

#forgiveness doesn't just sit there like a pretty boy in a bar

"It is okay to want your own happiness. It’s okay to care about yourself the most. You are not obligated to sit there and smile and swallow every bit of shit everyone heaps on you. You are more than furniture, you’re more than window dressing, you’re not their shiny toy. You’re human, and you have the right to say “That was shitty of you”. You have a right to protest your own mistreatment and set boundaries for respectful interactions. The rest of the world doesn’t realize you have this right, and they will act offended and appalled when you exercise it, but it is yours."

— (via darktwistedwallflower)

2 months ago with 58998 notes — via damelola, © sonneillonv

#twenty four #forgiveness doesn't just sit there like a pretty boy in a bar

Here’s what our parents never taught us:

You will stay up on your rooftop until sunlight peels away the husk of the moon,
chainsmoking cigarettes and reading Baudelaire, and
you will learn that you only ever want to fall in love with someone
who will stay up to watch the sun rise with you.

You will fall in love with train rides, and sooner or later you will
realize that nowhere seems like home anymore.

A woman will kiss you and you’ll think her lips are two petals
rubbing against your mouth.

You will not tell anyone that you liked it.
It’s okay.
It is beautiful to love humans in a world where love is a metaphor for lust.

You can leave if you want, with only your skin as a carry-on.

All you need is a twenty in your pocket and a bus ticket.
All you need is someone on the other end of the map, thinking about the supple
curves of your body, to guide you to a home that stretches out for miles
and miles on end.

You will lie to everyone you love.
They will love you anyways.

One day you’ll wake up and realize that you are too big for your own skin.

Molt.
Don’t be afraid.

Your body is a house where the shutters blow in and out
against the windowpane.

You are a hurricane-prone area.
The glass will break through often.

But it’s okay. I promise.

Remember,
a stranger once told you that the breeze
here is something worth writing poems about.

— “Here’s What Our Parents Never Taught Us,” Shinji Moon (via perfect)

2 months ago with 60480 notes — via damelola, © commovente

#is it wrong for me to be so enamored with your tears? #i must be a monster to watch an old man cry and think it not enough #it is not enough #you are twenty years too late #and you are still not enough #i must always live with the damage of you with the rot in my soul from my tears over you #i watched an old man weep for me and all i could think was 'More.' #all i could think was 'You havent aold me yet.' #forgiveness doesn't just sit there like a pretty boy in a bar

When my father talks about gender bias in the workplace:

2 months ago with 0 notes

#would you like a gold star for your hypocrisy #or shall i simply sit back and let you talk yourself into a corner as usual? #forgiveness doesn't just sit there like a pretty boy in a bar

مآ أجمّل أنْ تصمتْ
فيْ ؤجهْ منْ ينتظرْ منِك الخِصَام

وما أجمل أنْ تضحك
فيْ وجهْ منْ يُنتظرْ منك البكـاءْ

How beautiful is it to stay silent
When someone expects you to be enraged from them.
And how beautiful it is to laugh
When someone thinks you are going to shed tears.

2 months ago with 78806 notes — via damelola, © desertwinds

#forgiveness doesn't just sit there like a pretty boy in a bar

"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing."

— Richard Feynman (via tripodologia)

2 months ago with 419 notes — via takeoffyocool1, © tripodologia

#forgiveness doesn't just sit there like a pretty boy in a bar

Did this woman really just walk in here at 7 AM asking me to “help” them?

Are you fucking kidding me? Your douchebag husband deliberately triggered me, has yet to acknowledge or apologize, has been playing the “You don’t exist because I find you offensive” game for two weeks,

And I’m supposed to help him pick out suits? I’m supposed to blow off my test prep schedule for that? For him?

Fuck outta here.

2 months ago with 0 notes

#forgiveness doesn't just sit there like a pretty boy in a bar

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