sweetestsecrets:

“I was so good at wanting to live, and then December happened; sneaking out from the bare branches, a mess I meet at my doorstep once again. It has been a good, long while. We were almost strangers. I am trying hard not to fall back into your arms, but this cold air is piercing, and any company at all feels nice.”

— Schuyler Peck, The December I Didn’t Want (via schuylerpeck)

violentwavesofemotion:

“…the venom that I had to suffer this year.”

— Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. January 1960

uselessatheart:

“I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

(via tristamateer)

the-book-diaries:

“I am too full of life to be half-loved.”

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada
(via the-book-diaries)

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xenosagaepisodeone:

sure he’s well versed in leftist theory but does he do the dishes

this is such a succinct critique of  male leftists who think of it as theory only & won’t even get off their ass to clear the table

@spock-and-uhuras-jam-band literally lmao

She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes by the Sink

I remember my wife often saying how exhausting it was for her to have to tell me what to do all the time. It’s why the sexiest thing a man can say to his partner is “I got this,” and then take care of whatever needs taken care of.

I always reasoned: “If you just tell me what you want me to do, I’ll gladly do it.”

But she didn’t want to be my mother. She wanted to be my partner, and she wanted me to apply all of my intelligence and learning capabilities to the logistics of managing our lives and household.

She wanted me to figure out all of the things that need done, and devise my own method of task management.

I wish I could remember what seemed so unreasonable to me about that at the time.

It’s not just about equal division of labor. It’s also about, “this thing is important to her. If he ignores it, he’s saying that what she wants is irrelevant to him.”

And that’s a guy saying, “I’m only spending time with you because it’s pleasant for me.” He’s already decided what’s “really” important, and her input is not welcome.

If he won’t do the dishes and laundry, he’s looking for fun, not a partnership. And his “leftist” ideals will be the same–something he studies because it’s interesting to him; a form of activism that he thinks will bring him a better life. If he can’t do household tasks that matter to a person he loves, he sure as hell can’t support policies that help people whose struggles he doesn’t even acknowledge are real.

(via miaephonus)