Ego

I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me?

[escbabble]

KINGS

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“(…) no one wants a half-remembered tragedy. You must know the width of the knife and how it ruined you, name the organs it kissed.”

— Life of the Party, ‘Addendum II to No Baptism’ by Olivia Gatwood

[rosources]

I was very young when I was cracked open.

Some things you should let go of Others you shouldn’t Views differ as to which I kept hold of everything, just in case

—  Emily Berry,  The Numbers Game

[valtsv]

people need to stop asking me what i'm thinking about like the inside of my head looks a heironymous bosch painting you're gonna have to be more specific

[valtsv]

someone: you're so quiet lol what's going on in your head haha

what's going on in my head:

[sweatermuppet]

poem in which the vulture flees, by silas denver melvin

[guerrillatech]

[quotemadness]

“You kiss me with your mouth wide open like you’re not afraid of swallowing poison. I taste the good and bad in you and want them both. We call this bravery.”

— Anita Ofokansi

[belmonnt-remade-deactivated2023]

fuck it. thats YOU in the corner. thats YOU in the spotlight. losing YOUR religion. how does it feel now.

[nessanoto]

[shisasan]

𝙳𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚗𝚎 𝚍𝚞 𝙼𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚛, 𝚁𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚌𝚊 [𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟾]

[quotemadness]

“Let’s lie very still and quiet and hold each other and not think at all.”

— Ernest Hemingway

[thekwikemart]

[sexwitsockson]

[quotemadness]

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

— Ernest Hemingway 

[quotemadness]

“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

[antigonick]

“—he is nameless and unknown. He left nothing but tears for me. I do not weep only for him.”

— Homer, excerpt of “Book I”, The Odyssey, trans. by Emily Wilson

[maybuds]

Trying to make sense of the kind of freedom and tenderness that can only come from so much loneliness

charlotte ager / sean thomas dougherty / félix vallotton / clarice lispector / beya rebaï / may sarton / maria medem / quint buchholz