[0stardust]

I found a little boutique on my way home and bought this necklace 🩵

[absurdityof]

“I felt very sad so I sat down. I felt so sad that I rested my head on my own knees and smoothed my own head. I felt so sad I couldn’t imagine feeling any other way again. I said, I don’t like this. I don’t want to do this anymore. And I went back to lying in bed, just before the doorbell rang.”

— Jamaica Kincaid, from “What Have I Been Doing Lately,” At the Bottom of the River (via lifeinpoetry)

[worldscoolest]

[objetpetita]

“‘I have been loved,’ she said, ‘by something strange, and it has forgotten me.’”

― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

[urbanasereia]

[l00000]

[petaltexturedskies]

Vladimir Nabokov, from letter to Vera Nabokov wr. c. July 1923, featured in Letters to Véra

[perriaeyjeve]

[cloudyyyy6]

[rruslana2-deactivated20200620]

“I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside me.”

— Christa Wolf, tr. by Jan van Heurck, from “Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays,”

[starpeace]

i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”

[eaux-fortes]

“Punish my lips with yours.”

— Strato, tr. by W. G. Shepherd, from “The Greek Antholohy and Other Ancient Epigrams,” 

[04k96]

[dayosha]

[sawasawako]

- lighthousekeeping, jeanette winterson

[cia-o]

to be loved in new ways you weren't aware existed

[dolutufegiterstut]