[flowerytale]

Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

[mournfulroses]

Georgia O’Keeffe, from a letter to Alfred Stieglitz featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

[mournfulroses]

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a poem titled "Interim," featured in The Complete Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

[mournfulroses]

Paul Verlaine, from a poem titled "Lover's Chat", featured in 100 and One Poems by Paul Verlaine

[tenderlypressed]

[scissorsaint]

nice wound. Could use some salt though

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

my 5 year plan is to get back my joy

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

[r-girl]

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

we must try to find some small joy in this life because it is actually all we have

[haverst]

source / Haverst

[mournfulroses]

Rati Saxena, from a poem titled "Mountain Nights," featured in Not a muse : the inner lives of women : a world poetry anthology

[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak featured in Letters, Summer 1926

[women-loving-art]

Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology Of Water: A Memoir

[gaysie]

t shirt that says I MISS EVERYONE I WAS EVER FLEETINGLY CLOSE TO SO MUCH THAT IT KILLS

[likeahauntingmelody]

before sunrise (1995)