1,629 notes • Reblog PostI had a sense of myself as a haunted house. I never knew when the invisible thing would strike – and it was like a blow, a kind of winding in the chest or stomach. When I felt it I would cry out at the force of it.
Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal
2,067 notes • Reblog PostHow is it that the world keeps going, breathing in and out unchanged, while in my soul there is a permanent scattering?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from Notes on Grief
3,190 notes • Reblog PostWarsan Shire, from “Bless This House”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head











