the thing is there is never a time when you will be more honest, and your convictions will be stronger, and your motives will be more pure than they are right now. which means you should chase whatever excites you. be confident, and take risks, and paint over my words so you can start writing your own. my story may have inspired you, but i’m certain your story will inspire the next girl to live in our room. i want you to know you don’t need somebody to write about you in order for your life to mean something. you can write about yourself… make your own destiny. then years from now the next girl will keep what you write on that door long enough to remind you how inspired your life is. and you can tell that girl to paint over the door because you realize the words you wrote, the friends you had, the urgency you felt will always be there under the paint.

leyton + nicknames

leyton appreciation week: day seven - free choice - parallels

it’s not about who i am, okay. it’s about who they are. they are people who hate, and they divide, and they feed off of people who don’t fight back. yeah i could laugh this off, but what about the girl who can’t? who’s gonna help her? silence only makes them stronger.

It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went away, he waited his entire life for it to come back to him. It was more than just a comet because of what it brought to his life: direction, beauty, meaning. There are many who couldn’t understand, and sometimes he walked among them. But even in his darkest hours, he knew in his heart that someday it would return to him, and his world would be whole again, and his belief in God and love and art would be reawakened in his heart. The boy saw the comet and suddenly his life had meaning.

I want to draw something that means something to someone. You know, I want to draw blind faith or a fading summer or just a moment of clarity. It’s like when you go and you see a really great band live for the first time, you know, and nobody’s saying it but everybody’s thinking it– “We have something to believe in again.” I want to draw that feeling. But, I can’t. And if I can’t be great at it then I don’t want to ruin it. It’s too important to me.

I want to draw something that means something to someone.