suspicious minds

nj

[nixscriptum]

the girl dinner archives | pt. IV

[literaryvein]

L. V., i hope you're happy but i'll look away if it's not with me [inspired by @luminote]

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, Letters of Sylvia Plath, Vol. I: 1940-1956

[wovi]

james longenbach / wendy cope / jon kabat-zinn

[wovi]

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leila chatti

[wovi]

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mary oliver

[vexheart]

— Kazuo Ishiguro, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs

[theoptia]

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27

Text ID: I observe how much I have matured since last year despite my belief that I was losing myself, how something strong was born from the painful experiences survived and from the numerous minutes that I believed were wasted.

[paper-wounds]

[depresseddyke]

cloe

[vincekris]

Giorgia Bellotti

[dark-romantics]

there’s something so fucking magical about bookstores and libraries

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“You touch me like I am everything you asked god for. Underneath your hands I become poetry. This is the alchemy that you do.”

— T. James (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[mournfulroses]

Charles Baudelaire, from a letter to Gustave Flaubert featured in The Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire

[acetoxy-deactivated20151215]

[feral-ballad]

I looked like exactly what I was. A woman who should be dead from grief and rage but wasn’t. A woman whose formidable intelligence and creativity were just getting born, only she had no fucking idea what to do with them.

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir

[adrasteiax]

“I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.”

— Oscar Wilde, from De Profundis

[turnupthestrobe]

[remanence-of-love]