[aaloosshitposting]

"If I were orpheus I wouldn't look back"

But we look back everyday- rechecking emails, making sure a friend is still behind you, checking to see if you remebered to pick up your keys. It's second nature, a habit of care.

It was second nature for him too. He looked back, not out of weakness, but love. For what is love, if not to look back?

[gothredy]

[petaltexturedskies]

I don't know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[brutamente-meiga]

[seu-bobo-da-corte]

[acaso]

[proseastes]

eu sempre estive sozinho. hoje eu parei e concluí: a solidão foi a única coisa que sempre esteve comigo durante esses anos todos.

[vintage-tigre]

[minuty]

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath

[petaltexturedskies]

When Dostoevsky said, "Pain changes you, but it teaches. That is its mercy." but Kafka said, "Pain changes nothing. It just repeats itself until you forget who you were before it started."

[fairycosmos]

i would never bring a child into this world but sometimes i dream about this kid i’ll never know. and i wonder. what it’d be to sit my daughter in my lap and brush her hair. to cut up a bowl of strawberries while we sit in the sun together. to tell her about how the constellations were discovered, how humans have been writing stories into the stars forever. to let her know that i see her, and that she’s loved

[metamorphesque]

— 34 excuses for why we failed at love, Warsan Shire

[liesandnights]

Arabic poetry is so beautifully yet painfully romantic. I mean, They asked “do you love her to death?” I said “speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life” and “Because my love for you is higher than words, I’ve decided to fall silent” and “It is not enough to say love in Arabic, you must say ‘be the thing that buries me’” could have Jane Austen crying and shaking.

[pvrplestuff]

When Khalid Hosseini wrote "i was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does" i had to put the book down for a minute

[doitforadamparrish]

when kafka said ‘you wouldn’t believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it’ and when brontë said ‘if you ever looked at me with what I know is in you, I would be your slave’ and when Sartre said ‘if I’ve got to suffer it may as well be at your hands’

[wedarkacademia]