[el-im]

Joan Didion, writing about the shock that followed after the death of her husband, John.

[dogzcats]

[campmiasmas]

CHALLENGERS 2024, dir. Luca Guadagnino

[krushing]

I was only curious to know how it started.

In The Mood For Love 花樣年華 (2000) dir. Wong Kar-Wai

[buckysteve]

art/patrick + old childhood best friends motif

[galebucky]

Thomas Barrow smoking ❤️‍🔥

[letterful]

[aradeia]

You could just say things in the 70s

[aliensoflove]

does anyone else think about the task of carrying yourself to your own suffering. walking to a test you know you’ll fail. driving fifteen hours to watch a family member die. jesus walking to golgotha carrying the cross. you know.

[theoptia]

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Sunday, November 4th

Text ID: Tonight, with intensity, I imagine that you are able to love me enough to desire to come back for me—enough to think of me with this heartbreak that is often in me when I think of you. And I am overwhelmed.

[kaori-kai]

[weltenwellen]

Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay”, Glass, Irony, and God

[weltenwellen]

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

[morallyambiguous]

how lucky we are that, even crushed under the weight of sadness & grief, we are capable of giving love and joy to other people, and they are often more than happy to give some back.

[theoptia]

Simone de Beauvoir, from Letters to Sartre; September 7th, 1939

Text ID: I'm not thinking about the day when I'll see you again, […] I don’t need to see you — I'm not separated from you, I'm still in the same world as you. […] I love you. You haven’t left me

[poliwait]

Richard Prince, Untitled (cowboy), 2016

[unsureofu]

on loving someone who has passed

a self portrait in letters by anne sexton / poem by louise glück / achilles and patroclus by @maieste / all about love by bell hooks / blue sun by nina mouawad / albert camus correspondance to maria casarès / un homme et une femme by stephan sinding / the gods show up by michael kinnucan / the chronology of water: a memoir by lidia yuknavitch