Keep your hands where I can see them.

[wordsnquotes]

“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“I looked into a void of love. And I fell down. There was nothing else there.”

— Alice Notley, from In The Pines; “In The Pines,”

[bunja]

Find the place.

[murmurrs]

You are a woman. Skin and bones, veins and nerves, hair and sweat. You are not made of metaphors. Not apologies, not excuses.

Sarah Kay, The Type (via murmurrs)

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You’ll bear it. You’ll last out. You will.

Olga Bergholz, from Lies, Rust, Sadness; “Conversation with a Neighbour” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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She laughs; but it is only the kind of laughter that has no lungs behind it. It sounds rather like the rustling of fallen leaves.

Franz Kafka, from The Complete Stories: “The Cares of a Family Man” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[grayskymorning]

The Future Kept

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I ought to be able to know how to write by now, and it seems to me at this point I ought to know how to live. That is, I ought to be able to dig a trench in my soul and find something there.

Anne Sexton, from a letter to Claire S. Degener featured in A Self-Portrait in Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Would it be better to sit in silence? To think everything, to feel everything, to say nothing?

Mary Oliver, from Dream Work: Poems; “Work” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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the same world that mothers you / unmothers you too.

Kimberly Grey, from “Motherless System” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[goodquoteco]

It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.

Sylvia Plath (via hqlines)

[amargedom]

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand…

Sylvia Plath (via amargedom)

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‘You have made so many enemies?’ he asked, with gentle irony.‘Strangers,’ she replied. ‘I seem to make strangers of all the people I meet.’

D.H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works (via violentwavesofemotion)

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disorder | by marco52

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…I have no time left except for people I’m crazy about.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to Witter Bynner (via violentwavesofemotion)

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no more words | by soulofautumn87

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I think you are ruining yourself and your life, and no one can help you except yourself.

Martha Gellhorn, from Selected Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)