[dirtpie39]

I’m posting this because I can XD

[ecultured]

nina simone photographed by michael ochs in 1967

[theoptia]

C.G. Jung, from Memories, Dreams, Reflections

[hewoweens]

u can be boiling alive in your mind for months and then on a random tuesday ur head gets so clear and life is worth living again and you're like damn what was all that about then

[kosmogrl]

[soracities]

“It’s summer now, and you’re craving a simpler existence. You want to read. You want to write. You want to meet strangers for dinner, and not refuse another drink at another bar. You want to dance. You want to find yourself in a basement, neck loose, bobbing your head as a group of musicians play, not because they should, but because they must. It’s summer now, and you’re looking forward to worrying less. You’re looking forward to longer nights and shorter days. You’re looking forward to gathering in back gardens and watching meat sputter on an open barbecue. You’re looking forward to laughing so hard your chest hurts and you feel light-headed. You’re looking forward to the safety in pleasure. You’re looking forward to forgetting, albeit briefly, the existential dread which plagues you, which tightens your chest, which pains your left side. You’re looking forward to forgetting that, leaving the house, you might not return intact. You’re looking forward to freedom, even if it is short, even if it might not last. You’re looking forward.”

— Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

[exitwound]

Youre a mollusk and something potentially bad or scary gets inside you what do you do. Make a pearl around it. Okay. okay

[existential-celestial]

“I want to calm down, to rest, to outlive this nonsense.”

— Anne Sexton, from a letter to Dennis Farrell written c. June 1962

[objetpetita]

“‘I have been loved,’ she said, ‘by something strange, and it has forgotten me.’”

― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

[tallahasseemp3]

"Can the absence of words tell a story? Like a pattern in lace, the holes as important as the threads?"

Eden Robins, Remember You Will Die

[petaltexturedskies]

The world is violent and mercurial — it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love — love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.

Tennessee Williams

[mervynbunter]

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

[choysum]

joshua mehigan / marie howe / james tadd adcox / olivia gatwood

[calebwittebane]

you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for an amazing reason

[worst-roommates-ever]

[moonlattae]

ragazze come ce ne si fa una ragione?

[capacity2]

Sometimes I over explain what I’m feeling bc I want the other person to do the same but that never happens they’re just like ok… that was weird…. Like idk I think despite my efforts to connect with people I don’t think it lands like I don’t think I do it correctly lol. It’s like I’m communicating how a cat does by showing that I feel safe to be this open so u can too. like the way they slowly close their eyes to say I love you or show their tummy to say I’m safe with you. That’s what I think I’m doing but it doesn’t translate. Bc we’re human beings…. My bad