Like the flower. "He is not a constellation. You should not wish
to be the cigarette touching his lips. He will not appear
through the fog and heal your wounds. Only you can do that. So
get out of bed and put on some lipstick. Stop falling at his
feet. Save yourself." - Emery Allen (via rabbitinthemoon)  (via
dggystyle)  "The rape joke is that you were eight. The rape joke
is that at the time, you didn’t know people had sex to express
love. The rape joke is that the only other person who’d seen you
naked was your mom. The rape joke is that he called you
‘beautiful’ first. The rape joke is that he held your hands
together and told you to ‘try harder’ when you struggled. The
rape joke is that you believed him when he told you were
overreacting. The rape joke is that your grandma called him a
nice boy and asked him to stay for dinner. The rape joke is that
he winked at you when you apologized to your parents for not
coming downstairs the first time you were called. The rape joke
is that his friends high-fived hi