girlie

lend yourself to others but give yourself to yourself.

[diana-andraste]

The Serpent, (Die Schlange from Eva und die Zukunft), Max Klinger, 1898

[achillesinhighheels]

[existentialyearning]

Salma Deera, "Salt"

[mournfulroses]

Ottessa Moshfegh, from "Eileen: A Novel," originally published in 2015

[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

[vivalasigh]

Jericho Brown, "To Be Asked for a Kiss"

[newvision]

— James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk

[glazedeye-s]

— sylvia plath, the unabridged journals of sylvia plath.

[antigonick]

Then suddenly you’re left all alone with your body that can’t love you and your will that can’t save you.

Rainer Maria Rilke, excerpt of “To the Younger Brother [An den jungen Bruder]”, in The Book of Hours (trans. by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)

Source—Und plötzlich bist du ganz allein gelassen mit deinen Händen, die dich hassen— und wenn dein Wille nicht ein Wunder tut:

(via antigonick)

[mymmelodyblog-deactivated201912]

Giovanni GastelUntitled Angel 19

2015

[elizaaadolittle]

“It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am.”

- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, 1847

[psikonauti]

Alfred Gockel

I Carry Your Heart, 2016

Original acrylic on canvas

[mortal-psyche]

anne sexton

[dentrodaredoma-deactivated20210]

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

Susan Sontag (via dentrodaredoma)

[rob-pattinson]

When you’re observing me, who do you think I’m observing?

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) — dir. Céline Sciamma, cinematography by Claire Mathon

[heavensghost]

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters.

[flowerytale]

Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters