Grey

I held on as tightly as you held on to me http://pankmagazine.com/piece/jeanann-verlee/

[whiskeyandembalmingfluid]

[mournfulroses]

Trista Mateer, from "Aphrodite Made Me Do It," originally published in 2024

[feral-ballad]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from Rien ne va plus

[Text ID: “—Every time I want to write, I want to write love stories. But as soon as I pick up the pen I’m overcome by horror.”]

[mournfulroses]

Adonis, from a poem titled “Unintended Worship,” featured in If Only the Sea Could Sleep

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— nipuna (via @nipsyyy)

[flowerytale]

Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Virginia Woolf (August 1919)

[heavenhillgirl]

Helene Delmaire

[remanence-of-love]

[bubbly-redhead1]

This…

[what-iz-life]

I confuse people. i have a happy personality and a sad soul. i'm bold but shy. i love deeply but sometimes i feel heartless. i'm healing and hurting at the same time. i'm dedicated to growth, but i self sabotage

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a novel titled "A Spy in the House of Love," published in 1954

[what-iz-life]

Normalize seeing someone's lack of effort as their lack of interest in you regardless of what they tell you. Giving you all of the right words, but none of the right actions is called manipulation. If a person wants to be with you, they prove it. Period.

[nothingchanges27]

This 100%

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a novel titled "A Spy in the House of Love," published in 1954

[wordscanbeenough]

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

[anxi]

[localbookshop]

Jean-Paul Sartre, The Selected Essays

[arylleth]

to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you.

[deadpoet-skull]

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

The Collected Poems, ‘Poem for a Birthday’ by Sylvia Plath 

[ID: Eaten or Rotten. I am all mouth.]