[squeakitties]

it’s actually crazy how passion and sincerity is the answer

[funeral]

Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

[89words]

“What cannot be said will be wept.”

— Sappho, Fragments

[newvision]

— Bob Dylan from When the Deal Goes Down on Modern Times (2006)

[tristealven]

“In another universe I am happy. In this one, I shut my eyes against the oncoming day and feel my happiness peeled from me. My eyes cover over with a film. I start to think a single thought, but before I can finish, it catches flame like silvergrass on the gray hillside. Underneath the flame, hundreds of millipedes curl and desiccate. They turn fetal. They boil away.”

— — Niina Pollari, from “Ursa Minor,” Path of Totality (via lifeinpoetry)

[orpheuslament]

The Promise, Marie Howe

[msvhs-deactivated20251231]

Mirror/Зеркало, dir. by Andrei Tarkovskij (1975)

[dogrotpdf]

how’s that house that raised you?

[fairycosmos]

the way that the way youre rasied really does impact you forever. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[randomwordzard]

the ladies call me the subjunctive mood the way I express desire, wishes, uncertainty, doubt and fear

[gyrovagi]

(smugly) actually all narration is unreliable because language can only ever communicate through approximation

[soracities]

“And no one is me. No one is you. This is solitude.”

— Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

[typhlonectes]

"Whale and Cat" by Boris Zachoder.

[soracities]

“In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Con nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

I miss you more than I remember you.”

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel

[boycritter]

"unbecoming" is such a great word. bro that shit was so rude you no longer Are

[delioncunt]

man i think it depends

[quotespile]

“‘Delight’ is a word I rarely use. Delight seems insubstantial; happiness feels more grounded; ecstasy is what I shoot for; satisfaction is hardest to attain.”

— Louise Erdrich, The Sentence