Happy Faces Empty Hearts

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

[thoughtkick]

“May your love be modern enough to survive the times, but old-fashioned enough to last forever.”

— Unknown

[vexheart]

[deviika]

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

[nobita-here]

[soracities]

Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, from "Theatre" (trans. Sarah Maguire & Sabry Hafez) [ID'd]

[deviika]

—Albert Camus

[feral-ballad]

Jane Hirshfield, from The Beauty: Poems; “Entanglement”

[Text ID: “You are there. I am here. I remember.”]

[existingillusion]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Michelle Williams

[deviika]

Nizar Qabbani // Franz Kafka

[elizabethsinclair]

love elizabeth s.

[lunamonchtuna]

— Susan Sontag, from “Death Kit,” (1967) (via lunamonchtuna)

[deviika]

Vita Sackville-West // Unknown

[feral-ballad]

Anne Michaels, from Skin Divers; “Fontanelles”

[Text: “To love as if we’d choose / even the grief.”]

[remanence-of-love]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— C.T. Salazar; Headless John The Baptist Hitchhiking

[feral-ballad]

Anne Michaels, from Skin Divers; “Skin Divers”

[Text ID: “Like the moon, I want / to touch places / just by looking.”]