Alex Riva Palacio

27, he/him, alcoholic, unemployed, activist, bisexual, mom to 2 turtles & 3 dogs, vegan, mentally unstable, divorced, widow, dead inside, Beyond Meat addict.

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

You're afraid to tell people how you feel because it will destroy them, so you bury it deep inside yourself where it destroys you.

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

maybe this isn’t the kind of love that deserves to exist. maybe it’s the kind that wars start over. the kind that topples empires and never leaves the world better than it found it.

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

what does it take, to atone, inside yourself? to never be forgiven?

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

i thought about what a plague might mean. what would happen if we did nothing? what can we afford to lose, and what must be protected?

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

was i expected to find solace in these people? i felt alone, perfectly alone. so alone i felt divine. divine like a lonely god unfathomable to anyone but herself.

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

there is such peril in loving things at all

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

but here is the nature of life: that we must love things with our whole selves knowing they will die

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

i’ve lost too much and i am too much lost

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

the truth has nothing to do with the facts

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

you cannot have a little of everything you wanted

[tom @tomiezequiel15]

yo

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

for most people, their ghost is inside them, waiting to float out when they die. but my ghost is in pieces. it’s all over the place, caught in all the spots where i snagged myself.

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

the most dangerous place on earth is inside us

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

to show our softest spots to the sun and pray that don’t burn

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

La @legrumpycat nos abandonó en el viaje, lo que implica que solo se han logrado 3 fotos, de las cuales 0,5 están decentes

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

that’s all speaking is. listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

reality was, after all, just so malleable – facts could be forgotten, truths suppressed, lives seen from only one angle like a trick prism, if only one resolved never to look too closely

[Emilee Honey 📚 @emhoneyreads]

Girls will be like “I needed this” & it’s just an iced coffee & a trip to the bookstore.

[bird 🐇 @oliveegger]

I’m not meant to work a 9-5. I’m meant to work in weird sporadic spurts throughout the day and late into the night

[Alex Riva Palacio @alexrpc_]

what i want to say is that i was happy. not always, not even mostly. but i did know real, deep joy.