—On Love, Marina Tsvetaeva

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

Fadiouth, Senegal, 1988. Baobab trees over the Catholic cemetery,  A. Abbas.

Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Fady Joudah, from The Butterfly’s Burden; “We were missing a present”

no more slut shaming. only. slut honoring

meet me on the moon

First computer animated cat ever - “Koshechka” (”A kitty”), 1968

by: terda12

winter blossoms in chinese garden by 爱植物的梨子

these are the valentine’s day hours on the website of a flower shop not far from my apartment & i thought “8 am - ‘til the last rose” was really cute 

i don’t care how much i like you, i’ll leave you alone if you make me feel unwanted

what a mother does for you out of obligation vs what a mother does for you because she wants to. the taste of a cup of coffee made from obligation vs. the taste of a cup of coffee made. did you raise me because you wanted to or did you raise me because you had to, because i was in your home and you thought, i have to put food in every mouth under this roof. did you look at me with love or did you look at me. did you ever look at me? did you ever see me? did you want to? do you want to still? if i asked you to love me would you laugh? would you ask me why? would you tell me to not ask such stupid questions? would you go to bed and wonder to yourself, why does she think i don't love her? i've done everything for her i've bathed her i've clothed her i've fed her i kept a roof over her head. isn't that love? do you even know? do you know what love looks like? did your mother love you? did she make you coffee? can you tell me what it tasted like?