[mournfulroses]

Mahmoud Darwish, from a poem titled "The Hoopoe," featured in If I Were Another: Poems

[invisibl-women]

I got you.

[mournfulroses]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Huntington featured in "Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson,"

[nadielle]

"As the moon sheds light in fading grace, So too I wane, longing for his embrace. "

— Luffina Lourduraj.

[mournfulroses]

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

[animeaestheticart]

[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak featured in Letters, Summer 1926

[oldwinesoul]

[mournfulroses]

Nikos Kazantzakis, from "Zorba the Greek," originally published in May 1946

[gonewiththe-winds-blog-deactiva]

[mournfulroses]

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

[mournfulroses]

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

[nocuer]

Idc how independent you are, I’ll still lead us

[s1ck0]

Mirai Mizue

[kaikartel]

real intimacy isn’t built in the bedrooms, y’all forget that

[rosieandthemoon]

[deadstonia]