11march88

Here and there.

[prayerisaspell]

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”

[burbatch]

WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2026) Dir. EMERALD FENNELL

[firstfullmoon]

Traci Brimhall, from “Why I Stayed,” in Love Prodigal

[lantruong]

[girlfictions]

Mary Oliver, from On Meditating, Sort Of

[lunchboxpoems]

MARY OLIVER

[petaltexturedskies]

My mother taught me that the longer you keep that howl trapped inside your body, the more wolf you become, but she never showed me how to let the howl out. Womanhood is also this: a violence louder on the inside than it is on the outside. Smiling when truly all you are doing is baring your teeth.

Nikita Gill, “This Wild Violence Visits Again”

[literaryvein]

L. V., writings from the waiting room

[madebeliever]

Lucy Grossmith

[gaybuckybarnessss]

Caught Stealing (2025)

[pushinupdaisiess]

“i remember” is more romantic than “i love you”

[k-wame]

[lantruong]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

[incidentalcomics]

What are books to you?

Here’s the landmark essay “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors” by Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, written in 1990.

Posters are available to at my shop.

Thanks to the Children's Book Council for featuring "Books Are..." in their Get Caught Reading series.

[mournfulroses]

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, translated by Babette Deutsch, from “You Appeared,”

[qvotext]

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

Najwa Zebian