achi

sic parvis magna

[achillesinhighheels]

[meadowtea]

[achillesinhighheels]

[eymurn]

In your 20s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

[hatin]

via weheartit

[seekingstars]

IN 150 CHARACTERS OR LESS - Nikita Gill

[mukhangpera]

woke up scared,

not by the thought of you wanting someone else

but by the thought of you leaving me,

broken,

and you not being there,

to pick up the pieces

[valentina-poem]

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, from Notebooks (dated 2 July 1962)

[poetic-questions]

—Sylvia Plath, "Apprehensions"

[vexheart]

[mournfulroses]

John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne, featured in The Selected Letters of John Keats

[mournfulroses]

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to William Walton featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

[yourthoughtsspace-deactivated20]

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

[its3amincolombo]

As a final act of love to you, I'll become everything I told you I would

[nofixforthis]

You don’t ghost me, you haunt me… in the shower, in her bed, in my wins. Becoming your fantasy was never clean. It was drenched in guilt, soaked in “what ifs,” —and you like it messy, don’t you? We both do. Because this isn't closure—it’s climax disguised as goodbye.

[desolate-nature]