give me back my girlhood

xv | how terrible, how wonderful it is to have existed (main: luminescent-wanderings)

[therumpus]

“Humans like to be scared—we love the wicked witch’s cackle, the wolf’s hot breath, and the old lady who eats children because sometimes, when the scary is over, all we remember is the magic.”

— The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Sweetest Kidnapping by Cathy Bell.

[sparrowlucero]

horned king (for "The Crooked Moon")

[silkypicrew]

speechless. the pose. the expression. this should be a painting.

[c---crow]

i'm no good at painting sorry. i have excessive line work instead

[inkpressedpetals]

[paper-wounds]

[paper-wounds]

[bloodcharmer]

[oresti-s]

The Incest Diary, Anonymous.

[joohyungs]

What kills love? Only this: neglect.

Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries

[inkpressedpetals]

[mournfulroses]

Emily Brontë, from "Wuthering Heights," originally published in 1847

[ijaazat]

i am home after so long and it is… tough.

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from a letter to Fernando Sabino featured in Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

[eagans]

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

[leehallfae]

“that time is supposed to heal / only because once / it was seen with a scalpel in its hands.”

— valzhyna mort, “an attempt at genealogy”

[catilinas]

Sasha Dugdale, Deformations

[headlightsforever]

Tell me, instead, you hold my emptiness like a window holds the sky.

Chelsea Dingman, “Instructions For Resurrection [Of Our Marriage, If Nothing Else]” from Through A Small Ghost