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“Once in the midst of a seemingly endless winter, I discovered within myself an invincible spring.”

“someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. they can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. and whatever their reasons you must leave. because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. you never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. there is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. and there is the love that will be ready.”

— nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)
(via oharabella)
(via aminuteawayfromsnowing)

A (Small) Tribute to the Colonizer of Dreams

Happy Birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien!

“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”

-Gandalf to the Lord of the Eagles in The Hobbit

I don’t know about you, but I’ll be spending the evening celebrating by drinking what’s left in my bottle of port wine, listening to Ed Sheeran’s “I See Fire” on repeat, and rereading The Hobbit. Cheers!