loving you is easy

it was with you i was destined to be

[perfectquote]

“Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”

— Andrea Gibson

[primulaceas]

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War

[metamorphesque]

… I stepped into those woods and my life began.

1. Clarissa Pinkola Estés | 2. John William Waterhouse | 3. Franz Kafka | 4. Grigoriy Myasoyedov | 5. Mary Oliver | 6. John William Waterhouse | 7. Madeline Miller | 8. Aron Wiesenfeld | 9. Anna Akhmatova | 10. Friedrich Heyser | 11. Mary Oliver

[mel-leaf]

always

the end of love, florence and the machine // hair match, the mountain goats // nietzche, to trampedach // essays, montaigne // call me maybe, carly rae jepsen // i loved you before i was born, li-young lee //

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

Where it Begins, Erica Jong 

[ID: The corruption begins with the mouth, / the tongue, the wanting. / The first poem in the world / is I want to eat.]

[araekniarchive]

everyday love

Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Joey Comeau & Emily Horne, A Softer World (#1113)

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Our House

Ana Castillo, I Ask The Impossible

Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

@snoopysfriendwoodstock​, Normal People, Jane Austen, and the Romance of Walking Around

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

John Cooper Clarke, I Wanna Be Yours

Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

@icarusgf (x)

[yearnind]

sikhye + i love you's

vladimir nabokov, letters to vera // vita sackville-west in her letter to virginia woolf // pablo neruda, one hundred love sonnets: xvii // 8bitfiction // anne sexton, a self-portrait in letters

gifs by tumblr users: ingukk, kateknowsdramas

[gfkills]

[werenotreallystrangers]

[ijaazat]

i have a disease called “i believe i will have the love i have been reading about all these years one day”

[ijaazat]

let me assign you a love language which won’t make sense 

[soracities]

Frank Bidart, “To the Dead”, Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965-2016

[Text ID: “The love I’ve known is the love of two people staring

not at each other, but in the same direction.”]

[firstfullmoon]

14 love poems for valentine’s day 💌

sort of follow up to this with new favourites

“The Author Writes the First Draft of his Wedding Vows” by Hanif Abdurraqib

“Bad New Government” by Emily Berry

“Grief Work” by Natalie Diaz

“O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love” by Anne Carson

“Roman Poem Number Thirteen” by June Jordan

“Like an Auto-Tune of Authentic Love” by Carmen Giménez Smith

“I Have Just Said” by Mary Oliver

“True Love” by Sharon Olds

“I Loved You Before I Was Born” by Li-Young Lee

“Resignation” by Nikki Giovanni

“The Gift” by Raymond Carver

“On the Back Porch” by Dorianne Laux

“State Bird” by Ada Limón

“when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story” by Gwendolyn Brooks

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

when hozier said ’there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin’ and when shakespeare said ’how sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame’ it’s like… i don’t even remember what i was going to say i need to have a mental breakdown first

[enjolraspdf]

and radclyffe hall saying ‘if our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours’ should not to be forgotten also

[heart-eyes-express]

[raiain]

the moon asks a question by dirgewithoutmusic

illustrated by purutsukid

[sk-1522]

[narcoticvenus]

“The only heaven I’ll be sent to is when I’m alone with you.”

Richard Siken // Holy- Zolita // Take me to Church- Hozier // Nikita Gill // Cupid and Psyche

[xue-mei]

every page of This is How You Lose the Time War drives me Insane