contradictory

She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved. It was her face that launched the Trojan War, her untimely demise that inspired the building of India’s Taj Mahal. She is every angel in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.

[metamorphesque]

— franz kafka, letters to milena

[mioritic]

good morning from the ethnographic museum of brașov

[metamorphesque]

1Q84, Haruki Murakami

[text ID:  You lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world that’s inside you.]

˗ˏˋ☕ˎˊ˗

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[fairydrowning]

"I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break."

-Marya Hornbacher, Wasted

[firstfullmoon]

“Sometimes I feel autumn / is a doorway to grieving”

— Kelli Russell Agodon, from “Bite”

[02decay]

misty by webeyer

[utopians]

Has anyone else noticed that it's bad

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

[metamorphesque]

― 1Q84, Haruki Murakami

[text ID: I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.]

˗ˏˋ☕ˎˊ˗

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

Unknown

[wedarkacademia]

– Susan Sontag

[leonardospoetry]

constantly on this search

[weltenwellen]

I had a sense of myself as a haunted house. I never knew when the invisible thing would strike – and it was like a blow, a kind of winding in the chest or stomach. When I felt it I would cry out at the force of it.

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[fallingforleavesandpumpkins]

[th0rns]

snow angel