"

I have named you queen.
There are taller than you, taller.
There are purer than you, purer.
There are lovelier than you, lovelier.
But you are the queen.

When you go through the streets
No one recognizes you.
No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks
At the carpet of red gold
That you tread as you pass,
The nonexistent carpet.

And when you appear
All the rivers sound
In my body, bells
Shake the sky,
And a hymn fills the world.

Only you and I,
Only you and I, my love,
Listen to it.

"
- Pablo Neruda, The Queen (via jatigi)

"I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you cannot stand."
- Andrea Gibson (via paninyas)

"It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."
- Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (via honeysighs)

"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
- Jorge Luis Borges, Other Inquisitions (via jaimelannister)

afghanandwarmdarjeeling:

geography is a son of a bitch.
I’m lonely here, you’re lonely there,
let’s fold up the map and make it better.
let us pack picnic baskets of all the things we love,
meet in the middle of America, where the gods spar
steal a car and find a better place.
with a carousel and a duck pond and grass to keep us grounded,
grass to keep us grounded and rain often enough to keep the smell of earth in the air.
and a break in the trees for the sun to come through, and enough space from the rest of the world so we can sleep soundly in the falling light, with no one left to keep watch.
we can leave a trail of breadcrumbs or we can eat the whole loaf ourselves. if they want to find us they can work a little harder than that.

slay-z:

zora is my favorite ever and this quote is my favorite ever

"

Your daughter’s face is a small riot,
her hands are a civil war,
a refugee camp behind each ear
a body littered with ugly things.

But God,
doesn’t she wear
the world well?

"
- Warsan Shire, from ‘Ugly’ (via cobainesque)

What To Do When You Have No Plot 

writingbox:

Sometimes you want to write, but you have no plot ideas. Perhaps your fingers are itchy to write, you want to meet a submissions deadline, a character is bugging you to tell their story, or a single image, phrase, or scene is sitting heavy in your head. But you still can’t find the whole story.

So what can you do?

• Start with characters: find their names, their backstories, their relationships. Create detailed descriptions, draw them, build their family trees. Get them interracting, put them into a room together, or bump them into each other in the street. Read their diaries, their love letters, their bank statements. Get to know them inside out. This is one place where you may find your story.
• Start with a world: create your map, name the towns, lakes, forests, and mountains. Work out the trade routes, position the markets, the ports, and the industry. Find the history, predict the future. Draw out the borders, bring war, re-draw the borders. Get down to street level and see who lives there. Walk the streets yourself. This is one place where you may find your story.
• Start with a room: stand in the middle of a room and open your eyes. What does the room look like? What’s in it? How many doors and windows are there? What is the room used for? Who uses it? What has happened here, and what is going to happen here? This is one place where you may find your story.
• Start with an object: pick something up into your hand. What is it? What is it used for? Who owns it, and who owned it before them? What is it worth, either monetarily or sentimentally? Has it been lost, found, stolen, given away? Why is this object important? This is one place where you may find your story.