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attachment & connection. one stems from the POSSIBILITY of things while the other stems from the way things ARE

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thornsinthesoull

queeryearningg

i want to be someone’s comfort person. their go to. their favorite. i want to be someone’s number one.

soulisinthesky

achillesbeloved19

We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.

-Charles Bukowski, "Letter to William Packard" July 1985

achillesbeloved19

richard siken / salma deera / jen mazza / joy ladin

angiiireads

And maybe all I want to know is why I wasn't ever enough, though I gave you the whole of me.

heavenlyyshecomes

Do you understand? When I am done telling you these stories, when you’re done listening to these stories, I am no longer I, and you are no longer you. In this afternoon we briefly merged into one. After this, you will always carry a bit of me, and I will always carry a bit of you, even if we both forget this conversation.

—Hao Jingfang, ‘Invisible Planets,’ in Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, tr. & ed. Ken Liu

keremelcream

—Lang Leav; from Sea of Strangers

achillesbeloved19

"I was burning, while you came blaming me for the smell of ashes."

-Dostoevsky

wedarkacademia

“Take her, and I will destroy this world. Take her, and I will destroy you. Take her, and I will end us all.” ― Scarlett St. Clair, A Game of Fate

aretherestarsinhell

“I didn’t know it then, but that would be the last time I ever saw her. In retrospect, there are a lot of things I would have done differently, but I know it doesn’t matter now. I don’t think it would have mattered then, either. We were always destined to fall apart.”

-excerpt from a book i will never write c.r.