Shout out to anyone who’s struggling with their mental health and doesn’t think they can live like this for much longer; if you’re reading this, please stay alive, you’re still here and you’re so strong and i’m proud of you.
“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
“She entered his life without knocking, as one might step into the wrong room because of its vague resemblance to one’s own.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Jenny Han, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
“Could you hold me there, across the darkness and ache; can you bring me light?”
“All the wounds from the past now laugh / To the rising sun of your red lips.”
— Delmira Agustini, from The White Book (1907); “Intimate Delicacy,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
“You are music / and rivers, palaces, angels, and skies, / an endless rose, infinite and intimate,”
— Jorge Luis Borges, tr. by Paul Weinfield, from “The Endless Rose,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
“I never wish to be easily defined.”
— Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
- Irène, an excerpt from “Garden of Eden | I CHAPTER: LOVE”
Dorothée Gilbert and Mathieu Ganio (Paris Opera Ballet), Tristan und Isolde trailer: hand details (x)
“I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
“Let me glimpse inside your velvet bones.”
audrey
“eleutheromania”
— (noun) Eleutheromania is an intense and irresistible desire for freedom. The highly emotional human response has connotations of delirium, craze, and craving for total independence.
“I do not have time for things that have no soul.”
— Charles Bukowski