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[kitchenhumming]

[herartificialworld]

“Every day that we didn’t speak felt like declaring war in a battle I didn’t want to fight.”

— Sylvia Plath (via woundedkisses)

[hauntedbythenarrative]

On betrayal

Julius Caesar, Shakespeare//Lily Chatterjee

[daweyt]

— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘The Third Hour of the Night’", published c. 2017.

[oldwinesoul]

"One day I woke up and we no longer spoke the same language. I haven't heard from you since."

—Hishaam Siddiqi, Where Did You Go?

[invisiblebeesstuff]

"Rage, maybe rage would life me up, make me stand, make me walk -- "

- Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

[forbiddenloveletters-deactivate]

“I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside me.”

Christa Wolf, tr. by Jan van Heurck, from ‘Cassandra: A Novel & Four Essays’

[cherriesnmoonlight]

[beautymyeyes-see]

Bao Phi, Vocabulary, Thousand Star Hotel

[pinkb-3-rries]

you're gonna wish you never had met me

[weltenwellen]

Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from “[...] of The Silence”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

[roadmotel]

Yves Olade, Mercy

[exastria]

euripides (tr. anne carson) / sade andria zabala / anne carson

[jazbaaati]

[traumacure]

Perhaps a child failed by their parents has their own failure ordained.

original writing by @traumacure | do not repost

[flowerytale]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, 21 February 1941)

[katlava]

The rejection stung sharply, you could practically feel your self esteem deflating inside you. It was obvious there was no physical attraction on his side.