deadly nightshade

Holy places are dark places […] Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

[khorsia]

[fawnangel09]

i wanna bleed i wanna hurt the way that boys do

[bestperformances]

Samantha Eggar as Miranda Gray / The Collector (1965)

Academy Award Nominated as Best Actress

[filmreveries]

“Sometimes truth defies reason.”

Frailty (2001) dir. Bill Paxton

[upwardsdescensum]

[klownpartys]

[derangedrhythms]

I’m not in love with you but I seem to keep acting that way. If I ever figure it out I’ll let you know.

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters ⁠— W. D. Snodgrass, April 1959

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from a letter to Fernando Sabino featured in Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

[polkadotsandribbons]

All I want is to feel good…

[another-young-wallflower]

[crushingvioletpills]

lost my appetite over a guy and cant even eat a cup of cherries. fuck is going on here.

[petaltexturedskies]

May Sarton, The Poetry of May Sarton

[italiasparita]

Giuseppe Primoli (1851-1927)

Roma. Camera da letto nel Palazzo Primoli

[crushingvioletpills]

Dear God, send me a man who will hold my pain and not add to it.

[weltenwellen]

Monologue of Despair Penelope Alegria

[crushingvioletpills]

parachute 2023

[crushingvioletpills]

It's not the formless being Nor the cry in the air Nor the boy I'm seeing With his long black hair It's not the open weaving Nor the furnace glow Nor the blood of you bleeding As you try to let go

Not food Not to eat

Not the meat of your thigh Nor your spine tattoo Nor your shimmery eye Nor the wet of the dew It's not the warm illusion Nor the crack in the plate Nor the breath of confusion Nor the starkness of slate