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gently drowsing

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Now, gently drowsing, she remembers the whistle blowing. It surrounds space, time, sleepy summer evenings many years ago: a remote sad wail involving sleep and memory and somehow love. They’d fight on summer nights because it was hot and [she] cried and the icebox made a dripping noise, and because the whistle blew. But they loved each other, and the whistle–now it’s a part of sleep and darkness, things that happened long ago: a wild lost wail, like the voice of love, passing through the darkened room and softly wailing, passing out of the sphere of sound itself and hearing.

— William Styron, from Lie Down in Darkness (Vintage, 1992)

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thehopefulquotes

“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it’s true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn’t fade and the scars don’t heal, and it’s too damned late.”

— Jonathan Tropper

romanticbroadcast

And my mind was empty—or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anaesthetized wound. I thought only, One day I’ll weep for this. One of these days I’ll start to cry.

— James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

mycabbagesblog

— Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (1956)

bellslovemachine

This book continues to ruin me to this day. I haven’t found a writer like James Baldwin since.

saintzlouis

giovanni’s room by james baldwin // interview with the vampire (2022)

(credit to iwtvnocontext on twitter for the screenshots of the balcony scene)

flowerytale

James Baldwin, from Giovanni’s Room

llovelymoonn

hey sweet pea, can we have a complication of poems/excerpts that make you fall in love with love and all mushy and gooey inside?

casey reiland my boss informs me that moose are dying \\ james baldwin if beale street could talk (via @morepeachyogurt) \\ virginia woolf the years (via @weltenwellen) \\ keaton st. james rural boys watch the apocalypse \\ sayaka saeki bloom into you \\ james baldwin giovanni's room \\ peter gizzi lines depicting simple happiness (via @typewriter-worries) \\ @typewriter-worries \\ lizzie cernik how we met: 'it's like waking up to sunlight every day. i yearned for a soulmate - and i've found her' (via @havingrevelations) \\ jules ryan gravecleaner: "bloodwater" (via @springmyth) \\ @nobaracore \\ ladan lakshiri what does love mean? see how 4-8 year-old kids describe love \\ svetlana alexeivich voices from chernobyl (tr. keith gessen) [lyudmila ignatenko speaking about her husband, deceased firefighter vasily ignatenko] (via @papenathys) \\ aimee nezhukumatathil lucky fish: "baked goods" \\ thomas campbell \\ @soracities \\ vladimir nabokov in a letter to his wife véra, jul 8 1926 (via @saintesorciere) \\ anne carson recreation \\ victoria hannan kokomo \\ victoria hannan kokomo

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girlfictions

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room / Bill Hader, on IT: Chapter Two

ashstfu

favorite dostoevsky quote?

“i have a longing for life, and i go on living in spite of logic. though i may not believe in the order of the universe, yet i love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring. i love the blue sky, i love some people, whom one loves sometimes without knowing why. i love some great deeds done by men, though i’ve long ceased perhaps to have faith in them, yet from old habit one’s heart prizes them. i love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. it’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.” (from the brothers karamazov)

skipp3r

When people say relating to dostoevsky characters is “fucked up”? Like? There are perfectly normal characters like Dunya, who’s selfless and loving. Who always stands up for herself and her loved ones. And there’s Razumikhin, who’s a smart and rational, and looks for the small joys of life and all in all happy.

Me personally, i relate to Raskolnikov, but you know, allow me the benefit of the doubt