❝

That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what she really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.

-Jim Morrison

❞

— (via surrounded-by-my-imagination)

(Source: pressured)

❝Yesterday I fell in love
Today feels like my funeral
I just got hit by a bus
Shouldn’t of been so beautiful
Don’t know why I gave my heart, gave my trust, gave everything
You think that if I had the chance
To do it over again
I’d do something different
Make better decisions
Save me from my ignorance
But I keep
Making the same mistakes I made before
I see the danger but I go forward
I’m sitting here trying to keep my composure
Knowing inside I’m broken and tore up
She got me gone, I’m on her like a drug
I try to go but end up wanting more
Stuck in my head vivid as a picture
I wanna be clean but I can’t get rid of her❞

— Yesterday, Chris Brown (Diddy ft. Dirty Money)
❝The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.❞

— Stephen King (via the-random-quotes)
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Well Maybe You Can Quote Me

nextstoprequested:

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We have more liquor stores than libraries,
more pornstars than presidents,
or CEOs of fortune 500’s.
401k’s are measured in hood currency.
We can’t help but tremble with anger when the media casts us in harshest light
but the media is a business too
so they reside in reality tv extremes.
Who wants to produce segments about minority success?
Why show descendants of the world’s richly hued Diasporas opening businesses and embracing their cultural heritage?
When you can name drop with defendants
serve propaganda like spiked punch
and right before the clock strikes twelve
it is their honor to present another stereotype
and bigotry adorn in designer glass slippers yet wonder why no one applauds.
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Morning Breath

per-word:

Covered, wrapped in
warm sheets, bare, bodies
are we, your back against my
breast I lay my head
next yours, kissing the softness
of your neck, as you speak
the taste of last night’s sex
lingers on your morning breath

→ The Balancing Act: Lessons from Relationships past

thereflectioneternal:

The Love and Basketball

love is not manipulative
stand up for her
you can’t be the solution to problems you didn’t cause, but you can be there for support
know when to get help

The High School Sweetheart:

go after what you want
running away is dangerous

The Sun Shines Out Her Ass

love hard