you drew stars

a lit student who just really likes quoting things

[litaratura]

if you would like to tag me in any lit quotes or academia themed image posts (spilled ink is fine!) feel free to use #userliterature!

[metamorphesque]

Tired, Langston Hughes

[soncomplex]

Mal Fawzy

[petaltexturedskies]

One day you’ll have whatever it is you’re now so confusedly seeking. That kind of calm that comes from knowing oneself and others. But you can’t rush the arrival of that state of mind. There are things you only learn when no one teaches them. And that’s how it is with life. There’s even more beauty in discovering it for yourself, in spite of the suffering.

Clarice Lispector, from "Gertrudes Asks for Advice" in The Complete Stories

[shisasan]

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

[terrorignitis]

Juansen Dizon, i am the architect of my own destruction

[litaratura]

hi! i’ve been away/inactive for quite a while. but i’m hoping to be active in the new year! hope you’re all well 🖤

[moonstoast]

—on childhood

deathless by catherynne m. valente // poison ivy by justin kurland // forest by justin kurland // seven by taylor swift // the florida project (2017) // on turning ten by billy collins // michael sowa // ? // vincent van gogh // don’t you wonder sometimes? by tracy k. smith

[feral-ballad]

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “What I couldn’t explain via text”

[Text ID: “I still don’t know how / to love someone / without swallowing them.”]

[weltenwellen]

Carolyn Marie Rodgers, from “On/My/Aging”

[butchrat]

"wounded people love other wounded things" loving someone while you're both sick

Taylor swift

Nicole Homer

Micha Nemerver

Jean-Paul Sartre

Aleksandra Waliszewska.

Holly black

[typewriter-worries]

Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers | Dante and Virgil in Hell, William Adolphe Bouguereau | Wishbone, Richard Siken | Dante and Virgil in Hell, William Adolphe Bouguereau | The Smaller Evil, Stephanie Kuehn

[typewriter-worries]

There must be a line where I begin and you end

Doris Dana, from a letter to Gabriela Mistral (@liriostigre) | If Beale Street Could Talk dir. Barry Jenkins (@timotaychalamet) | Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka | If Beale Street Could Talk dir. Barry Jenkins | This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone | Shadow, Raleigh Ritchie

[litaratura]

Sophia Lornie, On Anger in Flatline

[brokenheartedcubscout]

iron hans by anne sexton / carmilla by joseph sheridan le fanu / me, her and the moon by jean farlow / xerxes’s tears by machado de assis / moonlight by ariana grande / the romance of duval rānī and khizr khān by amir khusrau / chang e by li shang-yin

[butchrat]

hi! may i request a web weaving about feeling unlovable, unlikeable, meant to be alone forever, being too much and too needy? thank you so much 🫶🏻

"I'd crawl on my hands and knees for you to just tolerate me" people like you till they know you

Stephen adly guirgis

Suzanne Rivecca

Caitlin Conlon

Daniele Valeriani

Yves Olade

Lorde

CJ hauser

Sza

Welcome to the dollhouse

[mike-wheeler-defender]

wlw + blaming themselves/apologizing for their feelings

Rania Naim / Bad Buddy (2021-2022), Dir. Backaof Aof Noppharnach / Alicia Mountain, “Spit Shine with Real Spit” / Nevertheless (2021), Dir. Kim Ga-Ram