twentysomething, unabashed nerd, occasionally a redhead. traveller, grace-receiver, Christ-lover, dreamer.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Kiss me (again and again and again)
by Saul Leiter
Write what you love. Whatever that is, even if it seems like an absolutely abysmal career move. Because if it doesn’t work out, at least you wrote something you’ve always wanted. If that carefully positioned market-friendly idea you only sort of like tanks, then you’ve spent years working on something that doesn’t excite you. If something you love tanks, then at least you spent that time creating art that you know, in your heart, is worthwhile.
And it turns out that agents and editors and publicists and readers can tell when your heart is in it. So my big idea was to do myself a favor, and put it there.
There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.
J.R.R. Tolkien (via rainydaysandblankets)
(Source: winterkristall)
I was blind and heart broken and didn’t want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, “I have wonderful news!” And I was like, “I don’t really want to hear wonderful news right now,” and Gus said, “This is wonderful news you want to hear,” and I asked him, “Fine, what is it?” and he said, “You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via nyc-the-birth-of-hip-hop)
hopeless wanderer, mumford & sons
So when your hope’s on fire
But you know your desire
Don’t hold a glass over the flame
Don’t let your heart grow cold
I will call you by name
I will share your road
But hold me fast, hold me fast
Cos I’m a hopeless wanderer
God breathed these words into my heart tonight just when I really needed them.
wanting this to be now, forever and always.
(Source: transmissionclothing)
Alone with the rain and sheep on Isle of Skye (by B℮n)
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit.
Audre Lorde (via rainydaysandblankets)
(Source: ryanbhilliard)
THE SILMARILLION FANCAST
gemma arterton as lúthien tinúviel“…and the bright stars shone as silver fires; and there in the forest of Neldoreth Lúthien was born, and the white flowers of niphredil came forth to greet her as stars from the earth.”
Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the strongest, happiest friendship in the person you fall in love with. Someone who speaks highly of you. Someone you can laugh with. The kind of laughs that make your belly ache, and your nose snort. The embarrassing, earnest, healing kind of laughs. Wit is important. Life is too short not to love someone who lets you be a fool with them. Make sure they are somebody who lets you cry, too. Despair will come. Find someone that you want to be there with you through those times. Most importantly, marry the one that makes passion, love, and madness combine and course through you. A love that will never dilute - even when the waters get deep, and dark.
(via freshdepths)
(Source: mariaarroyo)
all-things-bright-and-beyootiful:
Photography by Lillian Rachel
(Source: 8birds)
