Being Alive Is To Have Life Telling Youok Now I Will Ask You To Be Brave. Now I Will Ask You To Be Brave.

being alive is to have life telling you ‘ok now i will ask you to be brave. now i will ask you to be brave. now i will ask you to be brave’ over and over and over until you learn it & then have to learn it again

Some old gems from Bangalore

God is made of hunger and I am made of dreams, Katie Maria

Summary: If Dan was her husband, she wouldn’t ever let him go to seedy clubs alone. Then again, Dan isn’t her husband, and she stops him from staying at seedy clubs anyway.

/ or: guess who wrote some dan/blair nonsense again! 

As opposed to that quote about “the horrifying ordeal of being known,” do y’all ever feel so positively UNKNOWN and UNSEEN that it frightens you? Like there’s a self that you feel on the inside, and you believe to be “you,” but it seems like nobody else sees that version of you? And they’re interacting with someone that isn’t you but a projection of their experience of you? What’s more, perhaps nobody will ever know your true essence and you will die without ever being fully realized????? I’m only two beers in honestly

Oh, my, god.

Fun story: I asked Josh Safran on twitter if he could share the entirety of Dan’s vows (as some picture of the two pages suddenly emerged on twitter, but the second one was half hidden) to which he answered by tagging Jeanne Leitenberg, one of the Gossip Girl writers asking her if she was the one who wrote them. She did and shared the entirety of Dan’s vows, which you can read right here: