[deathgasmic]

half avoidant on my father's side

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from “Maria Nephele: A Poem In Two,”

[rruslana2-deactivated20200620]

“I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside me.”

— Christa Wolf, tr. by Jan van Heurck, from “Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays,”

[wrathofachilleus]

born to be an abstract concept, forced to be a percievable entity

[soracities]

“You’re [a] monster. But so am I—which is why I can’t turn away from you.”

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

[archivezoya]

Reliquia

[luthienne]

“I feel the distance between myself and others. I guard that distance.”

— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

[rontieremodeled-deactivated2023]

*me flirting*

so… have you… learned anything interesting lately?

[roua-poemului]

“Sometimes he wished he could be the wind and touch all of her at once.”

— Greg Sellers, journal entry, “Notes from Neruda’s Ghost,” 1 August 2020.

[luthienne]

Ingeborg Bachmann, from “Leaving Port” (tr. Mark Anderson)

[eaux-fortes]

“Punish my lips with yours.”

— Strato, tr. by W. G. Shepherd, from “The Greek Antholohy and Other Ancient Epigrams,” 

[dulceinfernum]

postcards from paris

[to-be-okay-deactivated20221112]

“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”

— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

[orhcid]

[tatiinfull]

I disappear sometimes. It’s my thing.

[europeanmanclassic]

[henrycharlesbukowski]

“Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?”

— Charles Bukowski