manic thoughts

in bloom.

[company]

when kafka said "all the love in the world is useless when there is total lack of understanding" and when richard siken said “if you love me, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”

[beautifulscreaminglady]

anne carson

[company]

[sontagspdf]

when anaïs nin said “i dont want worship. i want understanding”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“That’s what she craved. Hysterical loves and inevitable betrayals.”

— Janet Fitch, from “White Oleander,” originally published c. July 1999

[yamelcakes]

I need to plaster this on every surface of my house tbh

[inviat-deactivated20210110]

When Solange said “I can’t be a singular expression of myself, there’s too many parts, too many spaces, too many manifestations, too many lines, too many curves, too many troubles, too many journeys, too many mountains, too many rivers, so many…” I felt it in my soul

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Persephone, still alive, exhaustingly alive, covered in flames,”

— Lola Ridge, from To the Many; Collected Poems of Lola Ridge; “Hellish,”

[whatthebec-deactivated20150323]

[toxicnectar]

I romanticized you


to the point where


the knives you
 pressed

into my skin


began to look

like
 Cupid’s arrows.

[jamesreads]

See the way the light folds so gracefully, see the world so clearly now in front of me.

Bedroom Wind is a 18” x 72” triptych with a very small edition available at www.jamesreadsmerch.com

[gaksdesigns]

[progressmarchon]

I’m sorry but I WILL FOREVER REBLOG THIS. I’m not sorry. This is amazing. 

[depresseddisneyprincess]

[inkskinned]

You weren't ugly 10 years ago, you were a kid, or a teenager, or just a human person. 10 years ago cameras weren't that good. We still used CDs. People had flip phones. 10 years ago Instagram wasn't a thing. I hate to say it but every year we spent perfecting our social media presence is not a glow up. A grainy picture of you just existing in the era before curated existence next to a perfectly lit and framed "candid" is not an accurate comparison... Be nicer to your younger self, man. Think about what it's telling the kids.

[witchingh0urs]

“When you start to know someone, all their physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in their energy, recognize the scent of their skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and your body but not your heart. And that’s why, when you really connect with a person’s inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.”

— Lisa Unger (via quotemadness)

[loversinarush]

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

“Many of us look inward and think we see a moral core rotted beyond recognition; we despair of ever becoming morally whole and healthy again. But we will. Look at where we are. Look back at the road we’ve walked. That we are alive is astonishing; that we are spiritually alive more astonishing still. There exists in us a moral core that has not rotted, died, or dissolved. It’s simply been crushed and hidden by all the other things we’ve gathered up because we thought we needed them, or things we did need at one time that have since become toxic to us in our movement toward spiritual health. The moral core is there. It’s looking a little peaked, true. It needs some care and feeding. But it will heal, and thrive, and show us how we need to live.”

— Waiting, Marya Hornbacher

[kudchesh]

The Sorrows of Young Werther - Robert Gligorov

[butterflikisses]

[elizabyss333]

I think of this story so often. She was such a gift to us all. I’m so glad she didn’t stay silent forever.

[memory-is-treachery]

u heard him ladies

[cremedelacoeur]

going into second hand bookstores and seeing the worn out paperback you’ve been trying to find for months and finding an odd bookmark inside the musty pages feels like divine providence