It is okay to gain a little holiday weight.
The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don’t belong to English
though I belong nowhere else
— Gustavo Pérez Firmat en “Drown” de Junot Díaz
Soy un cliché, pero esta poesía feminista me está matando!
This, this is about my own some-day daughter. When you approach me, already stung-stayed with insecurity, begging, “Mom, will I be pretty? Will I be pretty?” I will wipe that question from your mouth like cheap lipstick and answer, “No! The word pretty is unworthy of everything you will be, and no child of mine will be contained in five letters.
“You will be pretty intelligent, pretty creative, pretty amazing. But you, will never be merely ‘pretty’.”
La escena que me parte el corazón </3
Así…
Son tiempos difíciles para los soñadores.
It is okay to gain a little holiday weight.
Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really.
— Harvey Milk (via lashoras)
Dear Alexa, you look lovely.
Isn’t it a sad comment on heterosexual relationships that it’s so rare to see a man and a woman who are best friends?
— Jeffrey Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality
The Mindy Project - What Are Your Dating Musts? (x)
(Source: jenna-maroney)
