"If you read like your life depends on it because it actually does–because it’s how you process the general goings–on of your life, the universe, and everything (hey-o Douglas Adams), you’re probably more open to the idea of forcing yourself to try something that other readers have declared to be masterful. There is a breed of reader who wants to level up, upgrading-Samus-Aran’s-suit-style, or to warp a phrase from Cheryl Strayed, who is into reading like a motherfucker. Reading like a motherfucker involves more effort than you initially want to put in. It involves laying down preconceived notions about a work and understanding the history of this thing you love. Reading like a motherfucker isn’t about being entertained all the time, and it’s certainly not about relaxing (have you READ Ulysses?). Reading like a motherfucker is, somehow and sometimes, about work." 

"

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.

We lived in the gaps between stories.

" 

centuriesbehind:

“The power of finding beauty
in the humblest things makes
home happy and life lovely.”

~Louisa May Alcott

fitandhappy8:

on repeat.

not-enough-fandom:

i wanna dress like a post-apocalyptic rebel leader who beheads her enemies while taking shots of whiskey but then again i also want to dress like a very feminine little girl that frolics through fields of lovely flowers, 
my struggle is real

(via thats-mayor-belle-to-you)

brigantes:

girls on their periods

(via thats-mayor-belle-to-you)