bookspinesanddaisies

[bookspinesanddaisies]

i can’t wait to go to law school, to have my own apartment full of plants and my cats. thrifted plates and mugs, art covering every wall

[bookspinesanddaisies]

i’m so tired of being a mother

- the eldest daughter

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there will soon be a day where i have mourned my mother longer than i knew her

[bookspinesanddaisies]

it’s not just a crush anymore, i crave them like i crave the air i breathe

[bookspinesanddaisies]

the universe keeps bringing you back to me, and i think maybe, just maybe, it’s finally our time

[bookspinesanddaisies]

noor hindi, author of the poem ‘fuck your lecture on craft, my people are dying,’ is sending people print copies of the poem for every donation made (with receipt) to palestinian aid. please consider participating if you’re interested!

[bookspinesanddaisies]

feeling those people close to you feel more and more like home

[bookspinesanddaisies]

now your face makes me nauseous

and your hands force me to remember

your words that linger in the back of my mind

[bookspinesanddaisies]

in bed with the lights off at 7:40pm big as fuck glass of ice water i don't care what happens to anyone or anything bye

[bookspinesanddaisies]

staying close w people long distance really is about the mundane stuff. i get texts like "made quesadillas" "spilled mop water all over the floor :(" "lady on the bus has not one not two but three tiny dogs in her purse" andits like wow. i love you more than words can express

[bookspinesanddaisies]

i want you, i need you, oh baby oh baby

[bookspinesanddaisies]

"everybody experiences that" says mother who has the same symptom of the same mental illness

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i want to hold her in my arms and run my hands through her hair and tell her everything will be alright, that this is just a phase in her life that will pass

[bookspinesanddaisies]

It was written in the constellations, you see. That every lifetime, they'd find each other again.

it was all just a game

[bookspinesanddaisies]

and one random night, when everything changes. you won’t reply and we’ll go back to strangers

strangers by kenya grace

[bookspinesanddaisies]

i want friends on this silly app

[bookspinesanddaisies]

clenched teeth and crowded train stations