sad, innit?

we will never be here again, you’ll never be lovelier than you are now 26 🌴

[lunamonchtuna]

— Fyodor Dostoevsky (via lunamonchtuna)

[mournfulroses]

Catherynne M. Valente, from her book titled "Deathless," originally published in March 2011

[mournfulroses]

Emily Brontë, from The Collected Works & Poetry of Emily Brontë; “Wuthering Heights,”

[shisasan]

July 6, 1920 Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka First published : 1952

[starlightacademia]

— Virginia Woolf

[solumsunn]

[lunamonchtuna]

— Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; "The Fear" (via lunamonchtuna)

[lunamonchtuna]

— Ada Limón, Crush (via lunamonchtuna)

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[mournfulroses]

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

[scribeherself]

people will say “they’re only friends” and then show me two people who would crawl through broken glass to hear the other laugh once. two people who have memorized each other’s coffee orders, fears, childhood stories, and emergency contacts. two people who would haunt each other’s houses as ghosts. be serious.

[sofia-aworldinagrainofsand]

Torino, 2025

[a7mred]

“The roses you gave me kept me awake with the sound of their petals falling”

-Jack Gilbert

[les-fleur]

If you want me, I'll be in the bookstore smelling the paperbacks like a pervert.

[thememedaddy]

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from a letter in translation to Tania Kauffman, featured in All Letters of Clarice Lispector