red lips and sinking ships.

i'm lauren.

[mypasalacqua]

i’m in Azores right now! the most beautiful place i’ve ever seen in my entire life 💫 ig: paolalien

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I am free and lost in this freedom. Do you know what I mean by that?

Ingeborg Bachmann, from a letter to Paul Celan, featured in Correspondence; 1948-1961 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[tackled]

[hannaoliviaway]

[loveage-moondream]

“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”

— Sade Andria Zabala 

[invisiblechange]

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling.”            - Roald Dahl, Matilda

[lifeinpoetry]

the worst thing about love is i remember it.

​June Gehringer, from “I get so jealous of euthanized dogs.“ published in Peach (via lifeinpoetry)

[modemchild]

[1st-1]

[lifeinpoetry]

In an old black car, a girl who feels sick to her stomach wants to throw up every man she’s ever known until a sea surrounds her. The Girl wants to walk on top of that sea. Girls want these things

Francesca Kritikos, from “Americana,” It Felt Like Worship (via lifeinpoetry)

[vekendra]

[thelovejournals]

Soon you’ll realize that many people will love the idea of you but will lack the maturity to handle the reality of you.

Reyna Biddy (via thelovejournals)

[sheikh-that-ass]

[melisica]

Patterns by =Odadjian

[minuty]

You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them… But still move on without them.

Mandy Hale (via minuty)

[mountainharvest]

Alexandra Hendricks

[soracities]

Autumn approaches and the heart begins to dream–

Bashō, from The Sound of Water: Haiku by Bashō, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets (trans. Sam Hamill with illustrations by Kaji Aso)