love has disarmed me completely

[glowcowboy]

holding my own face in my own hands and screaming “there is no connection without an open heart! you must be brave! you must be honest! you must be true!” in the mirror

[flowerytale]

Gillian Flynn ― Gone Girl

[heavensghost]

from the governor’s waltz by pheobe bridgers

[petaltexturedskies]

Franz Kafka, in a diary entry dated 19 June 1916, from The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923

[saintsebastiensbf]

Rainer Maria Rilke, from Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

[mournfulroses]

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

[fairydrowning]

"I wait every year for summer, and it is usually good, but it is never as good as that summer I am always waiting for."

– Martha Gellhorn, in a letter to Hortense Flexner and Wyncie King, from Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

[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

[stuckinapril]

you seem avoidant for a girl who’s so hungry to experience the full breadth of human connection

[luthienne]

Ingeborg Bachmann, from “Leaving Port” (tr. Mark Anderson)

[heavensghost]

You don’t have to belong everywhere (textile home)

[paper-wounds]

[flowerytale]

Natalie Babbitt, from Tuck Everlasting

[paper-wounds]

[moonandnightss]

— Mary Oliver, Entering the Kingdom

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[heavensghost]

You can call it love if you want