[expressions-of-nature]

Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina by Jason Frye

[expressions-of-nature]

Dolgiye Mountains, Russia by Arseny Kashkarov

[thoughtkick]

“Someone you haven’t even met yet is wondering what it’d be like to know someone like you.”

— Iain Thomas

[expressions-of-nature]

Hadrian’s Library & Acropolis, Athens, Greece by Milan Gonda

[havingapoemwithyou]

Middle age by Jason Shinder

[expressions-of-nature]

Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina by Jason Frye

[thoughtcascades]

i’m trying to give myself the patience i always gave other people

[macrolit]

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”

— Terry Pratchett (b. 28 April 1948)

[perfectfeelings]

“If you want something done right, do it yourself.”

— Charles-Guillaume Étienne

[theoptia]

Anne Carson, from Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Text ID: Two hundred and ten million years of desire wash through me. Blood-eater.

[thoughtkick]

“To have someone understand your mind is a different kind of intimacy.”

— Unknown

[thoughtkick]

“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”

— Stephanie Lennox, I Don’t Remember You

[paper-wounds]

[quotefeeling]

“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”

— Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Incest: A Jounal of Love; The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

[thoughtkick]

“Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen.”

— Jonathan Lethem, You Don’t Love Me Yet

[shisasan]

My dear I have walked on air all day since getting your letter.

September 17, 1924 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941)