1. "Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper."
    David Quammen (via prettybooks)

  2. (via misswallflower)

  3. "Celebration when your plan is working? Anyone can do that. But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an epic, that’s when you start to learn what celebration is. When what you see in front of you is so far outside of what you dreamed, but you have the belief, the boldness, the courage to call it beautiful instead of calling it wrong… that’s celebration."

    “Cold Tangerines” by Shauna Niequist (via julie911)

    i’m on the verge of accepting this, but not just yet

    (via littlefists)

    (via littlefists)

  4. "

    Your first time out of the country
    of your own skin, I didn’t bring a map.

    You always hated that I’d been lucky
    enough to pick my way through streets

    I couldn’t pronounce to find cathedrals,
    graveyards. If you were a city, you said,

    I’d only like to know your suburbs.

    If you were a city, I said, I’d like to know
    your poor neighborhoods, your inner parts.

    Read your graffiti. Drink your tap water.
    Feel your smog and dirt stick to my sweat.

    Hear your orchestra of sirens and gunshots.
    I’d know which of your streets to walk.

    If you were a city, I’d expect to be robbed.

    "
    Heather Sommer, Traveler (via grammatolatry)

    (via littlefists)

  5. Snapshot

    Snapshot

  6. Traces

    Traces

  7. Lineage What a sense it would make, if we could step outside of time and see the ways in which our ancestors flowed into us and the ways in which we carried on into our descendants.

    Lineage

    What a sense it would make, if we could step outside of time and see the ways in which our ancestors flowed into us and the ways in which we carried on into our descendants.

  8. Answers

    Answers

  9. The Title Bearers

    The Title Bearers

  10. Risa Scarroway

    Risa Scarroway

About

To those who found their way to my tumblr, hello and welcome. My name is Melissa. I'm a 22 year old college graduate working crappy jobs day and night living life and taking joy where it finds me. I'm a storyteller at my most fundamental of levels and tell them in the ways in which they should be told-sometimes in words, sometimes in drawings or painitngs, sometimes in silence. Shared here is a lot of my own personal work, along with anything that inspires the storyteller in me, things that simply take my breath away in both laughter and beauty. Enjoy the journey. Every story is heard.

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