my heart is like a haunted house

— Ada Limón, from “Dead Stars,” published in The Cortland Review

you were never a burden - and you never will be

any amount of love given will never be love wasted any amount of love given will never be love wasted any amount of love given will never be love wasted

Try your best today—that's enough. Some days you might just have to survive, and that's okay. You're getting through this one day at a time, one hour at a time, one minute at a time.

i wish you kinder, softer days that put your heart at ease

despite all the darker and emotionally turbulent songs that come later, there’s just something unspeakably beautiful, poetic and truly uplifting about how the very first lyric we officially hear florence welch sing is “happiness hit her like a train on a track”. imagine suddenly experiencing such powerful happiness it feels like it's destroying you

if you’re reading this i hope something good happens to you today

PRUE & PIPER "Heartbreak City" 2.10

SHANNEN DOHERTY as PRUE HALLIWELL

Charmed 2.06 | That Old Black Magic

I hope July is good to you.

i wish you kinder, softer days that put your heart at ease

Love is a beautiful thing. I still believe in it, in spite of everything.

don’t worry. it’s easier to love you than you think

‧₊˚ 🌹 ⁺̣* a flower for everyone not feeling good today

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

A reminder to all my lovely fellow writers: progress is progress, even when it isn't. Writing four thousand words in a session is progress. Writing a hundred words in a session is progress. Removing an entire scene because it doesn't flow well is progress. Rethinking your plan for the plot in order to get unstuck is progress. Development looks different for every writer and every story.

I hope you believe that you can still make a beautiful life for yourself even if you lost many years of it to grief, or darkness, depression, or a wound that wouldn't close.