fox-and-sparrow:

Just want a little farmhouse with an orchard where I can grow apples and plums and pears and make jam to go with the fresh bread I’ll bake every week

applehorseapplehappy:

“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”

— Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate (2007)

vampireapologist:

vampireapologist:

my new roommate’s best friend literally says “we’ll just go out for one drink” on a weeknight, goes to a club, has ONE drink while everyone else is getting to it, and then tells everyone when it’s time to go home so they can actually make it to class in the morning and I’m genuinely terrified by the amount of self control she has

saying you’ll just have one drink at the club on a school night and then following through and getting up for class the next day demonstrates the exact level of resolve it took to amputate your own arm on an 18th century battlefield