[teacupofthought]

When you're the girl who overthinks...

-- 'And yet, you are here' by Eileen Lamb

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[mournfulroses]

Dylan Thomas, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Joaquin Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Joaquin Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940

[mahoganyamore]

i think about you when i’m not even thinking

[thereadmind]

[feral-ballad]

Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Velma García-Gorena, from Gabriela Mistral’s Letters to Doris Dana; “December 28, 1949”

[Text ID: “I hope for love, because I give it.”]

[thoughtkick]

“I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, ‘No, we don’t use this heart anymore. It’s too fragile.”

— Courtney C. Stevens; The Lies About Truth

[libertymai]

study of the love note

there is something about the action of folding that is integral to the love note. once folded, it’s charged with a furtive and hopeful magic, like finishing a spell

[shisasan]

15 February, 1935 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from her novel titled "Água Viva," originally published in 1973

[anantucketsummer]

[thoughtkick]

“I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”

— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

[thoughtkick]

“It’s sad isn’t it? I once thought worlds of you and now you’re just another lesson.”

— Beau Taplin, The Lesson

[brehem96]

I would have given anything for you to love me

Love me, like you love them.

You left me waiting by windows.

Waiting for you to show

You never did…

They never had to question if your love was real

But I question it everyday

You never show it, no not to me

You can’t even hold a promise

So how am I to trust you…

What do you do

When the one who was meant to protect you

Ends up being the one to hurt you

Do you just pretend to be fine?

Even if deep down it’s breaking you…

You’d be happier if I didn’t exist

I know it deep in my heart

You probably wish I was never born

I’m just a ghost of your past who haunts you

Sorry I couldn’t be enough for you…

[thoughtkick]

“There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that.”

— Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen