what are we doing here

Disclaimer : I do not own any of these pictures/music, unless stated.

[reemillustrated]

[theartofmoviestills]

In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | 2000

[losneliest]

[mournfulroses]

Olga Knipper-Chekhova, from a letter to Anton Chekhov featured in The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

[enchantedbook]

'Eternal Fairy Tale ' by Bruno Schulz, 1920

[saintfelina]

Ansellia africana (Leopard Orchid)

[pollen]

Ada Limón, "The Quiet Machine"

[mayonezli]

[aperiodofsoftness]

Rika

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from “exhibits from The American Water Museum”, Postcolonial Love Poem

[louisegluckpdf]

he’s so real

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser”, Time Is a Mother

[quotespile]

“Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.”

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

[lucidloving]

Richard Siken, "The Worm King's Lullaby" // Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters // Trista Mateer, "I Still Forget We're Not Even Friends" // Naomi Shihab Nye, "I Still Have Everything You Gave Me" // Ashe Vernon, Wrong Side of a Fistfight // @/hollywarbs on ig // Ryan O'Connell // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // June Gehringer, "I get so jealous of euthanized dogs" // Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

[cherokeeghostwriter]

I must go, for the fog is rising

These are my last words, at least, until there are more. -if there are more. all of my words are my last. apparently. after some thought.

I should be prepared. (get prepared) come up with something clever to say on my deathbed, a dying declaration. something profound would be best, but all of the good ones, have already been taken.

[danskjavlarna]

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[thoughtkick]

“Everything’s a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It’s up to you.”

— Nicola Yoon