African-American, Korean, Cherokee Indian.
Christ lover.
Reader. Writer. Actor. Singer. Pianist. Runner. Dreamer.
And now, Phoenix: University of Chicago Class of 2017.
Thank you for visiting my personal blog.
*Quotes blog: alighthouseofwords.tumblr.com
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
William Somerset Maugham (via caitlinfaith)
You are so vulnerably haunting; Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.
Franz Kafka, from “Letters To Milena” (via violentwavesofemotion)
are you the SAT because i’d do you for 3 hours and 45 minutes
with a ten minute break halfway through for snacks
i tried to scroll past this..and failed.
I read my books until
I nearly broke their spines, and in the cotton field,
I repeated whole sections I’d learned by heart,
spelling each word in my head to make a picture
I could see, as well as a weight I could feel
in my mouth. So now, even as I write this
and think of you at home, Goodbye
is the waving map of your palm, is
a stone on my tongue. Natasha Trethewey, from “Letter Home” (via growing-orbits)
I nearly broke their spines, and in the cotton field,
I repeated whole sections I’d learned by heart,
spelling each word in my head to make a picture
I could see, as well as a weight I could feel
in my mouth. So now, even as I write this
and think of you at home, Goodbye
is the waving map of your palm, is
a stone on my tongue. Natasha Trethewey, from “Letter Home” (via growing-orbits)
Lord, when I feel that what I’m doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.
Brennan Manning (via middlenameconfused)
I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
On the Road, Jack Kerouac (via ralphjames)
What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’re entirely themselves, they’ve got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it’s authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.
David Foster Wallace (via paradoxicalsentiments)
#and then sherlock went and protected him
Excuse me while I go sob in a corner
NO
There’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.
Jeffrey McDaniel (via perfect)
