a safe space

[le-bronzage-est-delicieux]

[perriaeyjeve]

[mollyyoung]

[feral-ballad]

Since childhood, I have existed with a profound sense of longing, a longing that I construe to mean that I am somehow predestined to loneliness. When such a chronic sense of brokenheartedness finds itself honored in the unfulfilled promises of a lover, all that is left is the humiliating confirmation that one’s deepest fears are indeed warranted. I was right to be suspicious. It was too good to be true.

Shon Faye, from Love in Exile

[feral-ballad]

Shon Faye, from Love in Exile

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems; “One-Night Stands”

[zagrebinaa]

[calleido]

county clare, ireland

[feral-ballad]

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir

[weltenwellen]

For years I lived Maggie Smith

[zagrebinaa]

[dollgermx]

[dafancyuhinspiration]

[belmasworld]

[unreadable]

[dafancyuhinspiration]

[icaseybaybee]