[dark-romantics]

[cigarettesaaftersex]

„She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as people. It was a talent, as it was a curse. ”

— Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden

[wedarkacademia]

[ihateyouvishal]

"I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again."

//Arthur Miller, The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

[weltenwellen]

Chen Chen, from "Poplar Street"

[89words]

“Nights and days and days and nights, hundreds of them slipping through my fingers.”

— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

[weltenwellen]

Anne Carson, An Oresteia

[dawnsfragrance]

[hwhwgwhnwnwbwbwg-deactivated202]

I’d sneak into a library late at night with you

[theluxuryny]

I love the idea of jewelry being passed down in a family. The stories that it tells, the bodies that have worn them. I find it so simple yet so pure.

[finita--la--commedia]

“My heart will always fly to you like a bird, from any place on earth, and it will surely find you.”

— Etty Hillesum (1914-1943), a diary note of September [1942], in: “An Interrupted Life: Diaries and Letters 1941-43. And Letters from Westerbork″

[gnossienne]

Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays

[inanotherunivrse]

in another universe we are good for each other and the time is right

[bebx]

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Words by José Olivarez from Citizen Illegal /@fatimaamerbilal , from even flesh eaters don't want me.}

[cache-e]

When Achilles said: “I would recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf. I would recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion.”

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

-Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

[thoughtkick]

“I’m not scared of loving, I’m scared of losing myself all over again”

— Unknown