“courage, anxiety, and despair - watching the battle” by james sant (c. 1850)
Lunetta Earrings by Jennifer Behr.
the sexual tension between me & the alternate reality I daydream about
They told me to put my heart in everything I do. So that’s what I did, and I poured and I poured and I poured. Now they ask me why I am so empty and confused. Drawing and illustration Felicia Chiao on instagram.
you know everyone thinks it’s so cute when someone wears their Boyfriend’s clothes, but the last time Patroclus did that, it didn’t end well
this is so embarrassing. i want to love & be loved & drink really nice tea & eat really nice pasta & not feel like the loneliness is a part of me anymore. i want a herb garden
Max Ginsburg - Girls with Books
French-American, b. 1931
Oil on canvas
“I burst into tears. “I just feel so terrible about living,” I said. “I feel too self-conscious about living and it’s driving me crazy.””
— David Wojnarowicz, from Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration (via lifeinpoetry)
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there’s something so.. utterly beautiful and magical and tender about paintings of peeled oranges like. they make me feel so warm and so full of love and just !!!! LOOK !
this IS tenderness
E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962
“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life — where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
— Miranda July, It Chooses You (via stolenwine)
Mama didn’t raise a quitter but she did raise an insecure perfectionist who never finishes anythi
despite all my rage i am still just a girl in a room
“Morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable” — the secret history, by donna tartt.