thought you'd be here by now.

My name is Madeline Rubicam and I have pink hair and a kind of weird, startling love of Taylor Swift. Whenever I feel lonely I watch Gilmore Girls and pretend Lorelai Gilmore is my mother. Also I am still actively pretending that I'm not going to college in the fall so it's best altogether if you just don't mention it. ★ ★ ★ If you don't like Peeta Mellark I don't care take your business elsewhere I mean it just get the hell out wishing star(s)

"Her emotional world was simple: If you love with all your might and take care of the other, he or she will do the same in return. How disappointing it is when we realise the world isn’t that way."

— Sean Ferrer writing about Audrey Hepburn (via wowloverly)

"I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they’re your parents. Because, if you’re the kind of person who senses there’s something out there for you beyond whatever it is you’re expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary - you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you’re not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably become as ordinary as they expect you to be."

— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You (via -wh0reable)

"There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald  (via mermaidsongs)

"It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via rainb0wfish)

"

What happened is, we grew lonely
living among the things,
so we gave the clock a face,
the chair a back,
the table four stout legs
which will never suffer fatigue.

We fitted our shoes with tongues
as smooth as our own
and hung tongues inside bells
so we could listen
to their emotional language,

and because we loved graceful profiles
the pitcher received a lip,
the bottle a long, slender neck.

Even what was beyond us
was recast in our image;
we gave the country a heart,
the storm an eye,
the cave a mouth
so we could pass into safety.

"

— Lisel Mueller, “Things” (via fleurishes)

"I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald  (via 33113)

As I might miss him?: kathleenjoy: James Hall: I love that you risk sentimentality in the... 

kathleenjoy:

James Hall: I love that you risk sentimentality in the poems. Can you talk about how you construct a poem’s emotion without letting that emotion subsume the poem? What tools are available to a poet to mitigate emotion successfully?

Richard Siken: I didn’t see it as risking…

"‎Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are asked to laugh about it because other people think it’s funny."

— (i wish i could put this on a business card and hand it out to people who make rape jokes.  the flip side would say FUCK YOU)

"Many feminists insist that abortion is necessary for women to participate freely and equally in society. Anyone who disagrees, they argue, has merely adopted patriarchal standards and accepted women’s ‘place’ in society. Yet this argument demonstrates how deeply the roots of sexism run in our culture. Its premise is a sexist one—that women are inferior to men and that in order to be equal, we have to change our biology to become like men—wombless and unpregnant at will. What other oppressed group in history has had to undergo surgery in order to be equal?"

— Marilyn Dickstein Kopp (via kandacelee)

"And you’ll sit beside me, and we’ll look, not at visions, but at realities."

— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence  (via turtalia)

"What’s the worst thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term ‘mangina.’ Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up."

—

Full frontal feminism: a young women’s guide to why feminism matters

By Jessica Valenti

(via cwnl)

aka one of the greatest books in the world

(via youre-a-lizard-harry)

"No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true."

— Jesse Eisenberg (via j-ralphios)

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

— Martin Luther King Jr. (via chewing-onpearls)

"People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss."

— Into the Wild - Christopher McCandless (via julie911)