because he could not bear the solitude

Sara | literature, photography, beauty, art Quote by Gabriel García Márquez

[cheruib]

light in art / dogfish, mary oliver

[quotemadness]

“Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.”

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

[tennesseewillams]

anyway i’m not gonna find it rn because i’m supposed to be asleep but i’m thinking very specifically about vitas alphabetical list from tehran. if you know you know ig 😌🤒

[aseaofquotes]

Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping 

[weltenwellen]

Tomas Transtromer, from"Streets in Shanghai“ Bright Scythe

[sendenbiryudum]

[secretwurlds]

“She lives the poetry she cannot write.”

- Oscar Wilde

[vonkloecker]

[darlingvita]

YES DEAREST VITA I DO MISS YOU I THINK OF YOU I HAVE A MILLION THINGS NOT SO MUCH TO SAY AS TO SINK INTO YOU

[kafk-a]

Virginia Woolf, from The Waves

[kabaks]

sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

this is why this sappho fragment hits me so hard

[doomedvoyages]

[phantom-tail]

If this little book should see the light after its 100 years of entombment, I would like its readers to know that the author was a lover of her own sex and devoted the best years of her life in striving for the political equality and social and moral elevation of women.

“The Great Geysers of California” by Laura De Force Gordon, 1879, unearthed from a 100-year-old time capsule in San Francisco, 1979.

[levourdalak]

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.”

Gordon Bowsher to Gilbert Bradley, 1940s

[fudge-the-otter]

If you’re reading this please be nice to yourself today because you do matter

[butchfagminotaur]

i hope every lesbian gets to feel how it feels to have another woman be just as crazy about you as you are about them…. not having doubts or confusion.. I wish this with all my heart, for every lesbian, especially trans lesbians.

[shisasan]

𝙳𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟼, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[shisasan]

𝙵𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚍𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝙽𝚒𝚎𝚝𝚣𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎, 𝚃𝚑𝚞𝚜 𝚂𝚙𝚘𝚔𝚎 𝚉𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊 [𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟾𝟻]

[shisasan]

“I find the mystery of passion the most beautiful thing in the world.”

— Gustave Flaubert, from a notebook entry, 1840

[shisasan]

When Dante Alighieri said “Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift” and John Lennon said “There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”