[8nin]

“you’re so strong” thanks, i literally have no other choice

[shisasan]

I’ll only unravel for hands that know how to hold me.

🜍 ⟡ ⟢

[waningliebling]

she was gentle in the way ruins are, beautiful because she had survived destruction.

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

[kishibe-rohansbf]

date idea: i lay down on ur lap and you pet my head and tell me im not too much

[scribeherself]

the absolute devastating intimacy of a forehead rest. when you are both just so tired from existing in a world that demands you to be a rigid, functional individual, and you finally collapse into each other and just lean your forehead against theirs, or against their shoulder. it’s the physical equivalent of dropping your shields. it’s saying i am entirely heavy right now, and i am trusting you to bear a piece of that weight. and the most beautiful part is that the other person doesn’t even flinch. they just adjust their stance, tuck you a little closer, and absorb the impact. we were designed to divide the burden of being alive.

[saetiate]

wow that strong and capable and independent personality of yours sure is something. when’s the last time anyone has protected you from harm

[signedthemoon]

— isa b. this survival hasn't been soft

[undertheinfluencex1]

it's been so long since i hid myself from the world, maybe just this once i want to be seen, i want someone to know me for who i really am

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[space-mouse]

i love unhinged women but i also love women who try so fucking hard to be hinged. clinging to those hinges by her fingernails.

[wordx]

you're the peace i can't find anywhere else.

[flowers-in-book]

i would kiss your soul if i could

[tragicburnout]

the intimacy of someone learning your soul slowly

[xveyra]

Some connections feel ancient, as if two souls signed a pact long before they ever met.

[yuri-sandwich]

friends to lovers?? what about friends AND lovers?? why can’t it be both??

[nixscriptum]