Sade is a filipina poet, who writes for Thought Catalog and has two poetry books; WAR SONGS and Coffee & Cigarettes. She enjoys surfing, the sky, museums, Survivor, onions, true crime, gin tonics, and depressing art. She lives in Denmark.
Beauty exists because life exists. Vibrant plants look best when they’re well taken care of. Fields of green and patches of grass look best when they’re watered regularly. You can tell when a pet is doing well, fed well, brushed and washed and loved. In people, someone’s kindness makes them more beautiful. Someone’s sense of humor. The snort when they laugh. The way they mispronounce certain words, their habits, their individuality. The color in their cheeks, the little scars and the stories behind them (fell off of a trampoline, thought I could swing without holding onto anything, my sister hit me with the remote because we were fighting over the remote—and the way they laugh or shake their head telling the story). Expressing their emotions. Being fragile and soft. Being loud and talkative. Beauty is so interesting because it goes farther than outward appearances, and sometimes even seems to affect it. I think, the more unapologetically alive you are, the more beautiful you are. The more you find beauty in other people, in the depths of them and not just the way they look, the more you’ll find it in yourself.
“ I think, the more unapologetically alive you are, the more beautiful you are. “
ever had anxiety so bad ur hands shake and u hyperventilate crying in bed then u try sleeping and have a half-asleep dream of ur partner killing u so u wake up screaming and jump out from the bed yelling at ur partner and u get ur senses together with adrenaline pumping so u can’t sleep
yyyyy was i born with depression why cant i have been some dumb gullible bitch frolicking in the grass content with everything and unaware how meaningless and pointless life is????????
how to extinguish the enduring sadness nesting in my heart?
not merely fend it off until it hibernates, resting until it can strike again. but like actually obliterate it from existence, claw it out from my chest, til i am once more open and free to receive euphoria and feel the blissfulness from the lightness of just being???
Public PSA that Brandon Deem plagiarized my writing (and proudly denied it and blocked me after I messaged him on instagram). I found about it after several people on insta and tiktok forwarded me these screenshots
“Tell my everything you ever did and let me love you anyway.” circa 2013 went viral on tumblr
versus his lame ass
“Show me all the things you hate about yourself and I’ll love you anyway.” 2021 on his book When Our Hearts Collide probably full of plagiarized shit from the internet.
I hope this shows up on google when people search his ass and “his” quote
