[aghosts-eulogy]

"but there is something that happens when you are told you are too much. you begin to ask everyone, "how small would you like me?""

[weltenwellen]

Nghiem Tran, from "Asking My Mother about Her Childhood"

[weltenwellen]

Ruth Awad, from “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion”

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{ Words by Megan Fernandes, from "Fabric in Tribeca," in Good Boys / Silas Melvin, from "Twenty," Grit }

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[petaltexturedskies]

Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson

[petaltexturedskies]

Sappho, from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho; tr. by Anne Carson

[sweatermuppet]

anyone else grieving & mourning & lamenting & kicked apart by nostalgia & going silently about their lives?

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{ Words by Megan Fernandes, from "Fabric in Tribeca," in Good Boys / Silas Melvin, from "Twenty," Grit }

[flowerytale]

Robert Goolrick, from The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

[allsadnshit]

sometimes the right path for you is the one no one will applaud or envy sometimes its getting to know yourself intimately without outside observation in mind 

[pointnclick]

influencers don’t get it. sure you can stage beautiful pictures of your beautiful self in your beautiful house in expensive workout gear without ever going to the gym. take a mirror selfie that isn’t actually a mirror selfie. it’s you holding your phone with another camera on a timer. get your 500k instalikes. sell tea that makes us shit. vitamin supplements we piss out. you will never have the impact of a girl blogger with 10 likes on a post about the strawberries she got on sale at the grocery store today. i love when social media is a diary. i love you mundane expression. i love you pictures of pets i love you casual selfies i love you weird lighting. i love you diary entries. i love you alive girl

[honeysuggestion]

what if we kissed... while carving pumpkins.. and while baking those halloween sugar cookies with spooky shapes on them... hahah i’m just kidding.,,.. unless..??

[firstfullmoon]

Megan Denton Ray, from “A Recovery Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics”

[feral-ballad]

Ari Banias, from Anybody: Poems; “Bouquet”

[Text ID: “Today you want nothing / because wanting / comes too close to feeling.”]

[garden-granny]

some of y’all never close your eyes in the sun and allow it to envelop you in feelings of peace and contentment and it shows

[newvision]

— Hanya Yanagihara, from A Little Life