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It is June. I am tired of being brave.
Anne Sexton via wordedarchive
At The Long Bar, Lawrence Durrell
Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room
Vita Sackville-West, from Complete Works of Vita Sackville-West
Virginia Woolf from a diary entry wr. c. February 1920 in The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf
reblog the money pigeon for a financially stable future
Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.
Edgar Allan Poe
Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by A. Poulin Jr., Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus
Franz Kafka, from Letters to Felice
Rahul Mishra Spring 2023 Haute Couture
Carol Ann Duffy, from "December"; Rapture
Being a girl is hard because you are constantly trying to make your pain look pretty. It's like "I am suffering but am I doing it beautifully?" and "Is my agony and misery good enough for you?"
Robert Goolrick, from The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
Mary Oliver, from "October", Devotions
Janet Fitch, from White Oleander
Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”
Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.
Katherine Larson, from Radial Symmetry; “Gardens in Tunisia”
[Text ID: “There are days that walk through me / and I cannot hold them.”]
Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963
"I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person."
-Franz Kafka
Katherine Larson, from Radial Symmetry; “Almost a figure”
[Text ID: “Forgive me this old / habit. There is a danger / in making suffering / beautiful.”]
-William Wordsworth
“Today I forgive myself. Not just once. Again, and again, and again. As many times as it takes to find peace.”
— Unknown
a chūya a day. 214/★
Zoë Lianne, "Erasure"
Mary Oliver, "Felicity"
Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights"