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[weltenwellen]

Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

[weltenwellen]

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

[quotespile]

“Soundlessly, and without fuss, some tender thing deep inside me broke. Something that, until then, I hadn’t even realized was there.”

— Han Kang, Human Acts

[deviika]

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

[mournfulroses]

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

[mournfulroses]

Nikita Gill, from Fierce Fairytales Poems & Stories to Stir Your Soul; "Seven,"

[mournfulroses]

Jeanette Winterson, from "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal," publ. in 2011

[radical-revolution]

We should all do this often

[the-final-sentence]

'And in the end, if you're really smart and really brave, the only reward you get is the chance to finally start being alive.'

Naomi Kanakia, from Just Happy to Be Here

[unencumberedbylogic]

“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”

— Anthony Burgess, Homage to Qwert Yuiop (via quotespile)

[angiopathia]

[luthienne]

“Yourself, is it, / you burn?”

— Denise Levertov, from Life in the Forest; “Part III—April”

[throughwinterfields]

Filip Najman

[angiopathia]

“I want to calm down, to rest, to outlive this nonsense.”

— Anne Sexton, from a letter to Dennis Farrell written c. June 1962 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[aseaofquotes]

Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

[acontentmentwithobscurity]

#excellent book

[rosehipz]

for @literaturaes

[booklover]

“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”

— Anaïs Nin  (via thequotejournals)

[wild-diary]

Fangs || Annais Ferreira