birds kept in cages are meant to be free

I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.

—John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via badwulf)

(Source: larmoyante, via badwulf)

Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.

—(via takenbythewindandsnow)

(Source: pennygolightly, via chaoticlibra)

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

—Maurice Sendak (via nedhepburn)

(via chaoticlibra)