"who taught you
that the
value of a woman
is the ratio
of her waist
to her hips
and the circumference
of her buttocks
and the volume
of her lips?
Your math
is
dangerously wrong
her value
is
nothing less
than
infinite."
"Poetry can be reread, and I still remember you like rhymes to a heartbeat, hoping that the day I come to life again I can look at you and write stanzas in your eyes like I used to."
"The truth is
you were never
really here,
you always had
one foot in
tomorrow."
"One day we wake up and we are broken. We taste it
in our morning kiss. Our mirror tells us the same stories
in separate hours: things will never be the same."
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, from “What Could Go Wrong” in her book,
The Year of No Mistakes (via
rustyvoices)
"Holding anger is a poison…It eats you from inside…We think that by hating someone we hurt them…But hatred is a curved blade…and the harm we do to others…we also do to ourselves."
"As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself."
"
Mom, how do you know if the guy is the guy?”
You mean if he’ll be a good husband?” She pauses, then says “The ticket is for the man to love the woman more than she loves him.”
Shouldn’t it be equal?”
Mom cackles. “It can never be equal.”
But what if the woman loves the man more?”
A life of hell awaits her. As women, the deck is stacked against us because time is our enemy. We age, while men season. And trust me, there are plenty of women out there looking for a man, and they don’t mind staking a claim on somebody else’s husband, no matter how old, creaky, and deaf they are.
"
Adriana Trigiani,
Very Valentine (via
hqlines)
"People belong in your life by natural vibration, not forced will or expectation."
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
