I Love When Poetry Does That (makes Every Moment Of My Life Stack On Top Of One Another And Sit On My

i love when poetry does that (makes every moment of my life stack on top of one another and sit on my heart until i am sure every cell in my body remembers it is alive again)

A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown, the novel draws readers into its rich and memorable portrayals of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery and Sofia and their experience. The Color Purple broke the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, narrating the lives of women through their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker’s epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey towards redemption and love.

Do you ever just wonder if you cross someone’s mind as they’re driving home, doing dishes, laundry, the mundane things when it really matters

your month, your quote 💗🌟

January - “One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die” - Franz Kafka

February - “The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence” - Sylvia Plath

March - “For years I begged you/ to just take me in your arms/ you wouldn’t, couldn’t” - Lana del Rey

April - “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness” - Allen Ginsburg

May - “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

June - “I did crave attention, but I refuse to humiliate myself by asking for it” - Ottessa Moshfegh

July - “…her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly” - Simone de Beauvoir

August - “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself” - Virginia Woolf

September - “With the exuberance that only doing nothing can bring” - Lana del Rey

October - “Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards” - Vladimir Nabokov

November - “I talk to God but the sky is empty” - Sylvia Plath

December - “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy” - Franz Kafka

ps.. i wanted to include this alexander hamilton quote - “i never expect to see perfect work from an imperfect man” - but i couldn’t decide, take it if you’d like 💗

going for long walks alone is probably the closest thing we have to a cure for the human condition

"Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent."

– Virginia Woolf, The Waves