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[cia-o]

missed you, that's all

[larmoyante]

“While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you.”

— Jeanette Winterson

[remanence-of-love]

[feral-ballad]

Sandra Cisneros, from Loose Woman: Poems; "I Am on My Way to Oklahoma to Bury the Man I Nearly Left My Husband For"

[yakubgodgave]

A.F. Vandevorst installation for Arnhem Mode Biennale 2011

[flowerytale]

Florence and The Machine, from “100 Years”

[perriaeyjeve]

[soracities]

“You have stopped trying to forget that feeling, that anger, that ugly, and instead have accepted it as part of you, along with your joy, your beauty, your light. Multiple truths do exist, and you do not have to be the sum of your traumas.”

— Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

[inkpressedpetals]

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath

[mournfulroses]

Ariel Day, from a poem titled "Long Term Memory," featured in Black Roses: Poems about Love, Heartbreak, Mental Health, Self Love

[metamorphesque]

Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

[hauntedbythenarrative]

Things haunt, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

[aseaofquotes]

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

[flowerytale]

Anaïs Nin, from “The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955–1966”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“If pain can purify the heart, mine will be pure.”

— Mary Shelley, from “Mathilda,” originally published c. October 1812

[europeansculpture]

Luigi Secchi (1853-1921) - Pain