[damplaundry]

Mari Eastman

[gorgonapologist]

For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big, Jane Healey

[lissar-deactivated20200503]

when jorge luis borges wrote in a copy of beowulf that he was working on translating, “beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.”

[lissar-deactivated20200503]

here’s the full poem! it’s so. something so transcendent something so inevitable and real and conceptually like looking into the abyss and hearing a choir sing your humanity back to you

[quotemadness]

Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.

Nayyirah Waheed (via quotemadness)

[florizels]

JOE: I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it’s like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and I know I’m losing.

Tony Kushner, from Angels in America (via florizels)

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

“As soon as we embrace, we salivate, one of us wants to eat, one of us is going to be swallowed up in little pieces, we all want to be eaten, in the beginning we were all formerly born-to-eat, wolfing it down, eating like a horse; we are starved, full of whetted appetites—but better not say it, or else we’ll never dare to love. Or to be loved.”

Stigmata: Escaping Texts, Hélène Cixous

[macrolit]

What is more ambiguous than love?

Carl Jung

(via

macrolit

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[hapless-hollow]

Things I’ve Learned From Cats *ask loudly and boldly for what you want *take frequent naps *stare out the window  *feel out strangers *walk away from people and things that you don’t like *if someone touches you unwanted, let them know it *take cuddles as often as possible *always keep yourself clean *spend time alone *go outside *guard your own space *it’s ok be angry sometimes *sometimes just your company is enough

[derangedrhythms]

Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from ‘Eurydice’

[weltenwellen]

Clarice Lispector, tr. by Johnny Lorenz, Um Sopro de Vida

[huariqueje]

Arya   -    Jodi Pantuck, 2018.

American, b. 1967-

Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 in.

[youcannottakeitwithyou]

Nikolay Kalmakov (Russian, 1873-1955, since 1920 in France)

[rherlotshadow]

Island

[intopermanence]

“The Greek word eros denotes ‘want,’ ‘lack,’ ‘desire for that which is missing.’ The lover wants what he does not have. It is by definition impossible for him to have what he wants if, as soon as it is had, it is no longer wanting. This is more than wordplay.”

— Anne Carson, from Eros the Bittersweet: “Gone”

[existential-celestial]

George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) in her letter to Gustave Flaubert dated 27 June 1870, featured in The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert letters

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“Some of our hearts are more gothic and take to haunting.”

— Junot Díaz, in Conversation with Heather O'Neill, 23 April 2015 (via ringtales)

[weltenwellen]

Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed