[vexheart]

[remanence-of-love]

[nevver]

Last light, Mary Mattingly

[betweenversions]

brief moments of surface

then the water again

[museify]

[thoughtkick]

“When it’s over, leave. Don’t continue watering a dead flower.”

— Unknown

[minimalistquotes]

When things really hurt you, they make you quiet.

[bloombound]

[vexheart]

This

[remanence-of-love]

[perfectquote]

“I am who I am. Your approval isn’t needed.”

— Unknown

[thoughtkick]

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.”

— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

[vexheart]

[betweenversions]

light changes when you come up for air

everything looks the same for a second then it doesn’t

[vexheart]

[signedthemoon]

— isa b. in another life

[mournfulroses]

Olivia Tapiero, from her book titled "Nothing At All," originally published in January 2026