Stranger

Jersey. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving

[crescentmoooons]

"Angry and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

[musafir-x]

i’ve closed enough windows to know you can never look back

[thingsworthsaving]

“I’m not sure it is possible to articulate grief through language. You can say, I was so sad I thought my bones would collapse. I thought I would die. But language always falls short of the body when it comes to the intensity of corporeal experience. The best we can do is bring language in relationship to corporeal experience—bring words close to the body—as close as possible. Close enough to shatter them. Or close enough to knock a body out. To bring language close to the intensity of experiences like love or death or grief or pain is to push on the affect of language. Its sounds and grunts and ecstatic noises. The ritual sense of language. Or the cry.”

— Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology of Water

[musafir-x]

my grief is honestly like a tumor inside me

sucking the life out of me, always hungry for more, and leaving me weaker and weaker

[stay-close]

I understand your grief; even time does not always heal this kind of pain.

— Frédéric Chopin, from a letter to Auguste Franchomme wr. c. August 1848

[catchawishing-star]

“…memory is strange. I cannot remember his face any longer. What I do recall are fragments in time: the crinkling of his eyes against the sunshine or when he smiled, the ghost of his unrestrained laughter … I am left with pieces of remembering though I loved him whole.”

— Cindy Pon, “The Crimson Cloak”

[musafir-x]

I think that I’ll never be okay

[shortace]

"Sometimes it is dangerous to revisit a loved book, especially after a great change in one's life: the book no longer seems perfect; one swears it has been altered or edited, when in fact it is, of course, oneself who has been revised."

- Peter Cameron, Andorra

[fromhersoul]

„𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙖 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪; 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙖𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙝 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙨, 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙣𝙤𝙩.“(𝟮:𝟮𝟭𝟲)

[dankmemesreasonforliving]

[alistairradley]

“May I love the Giver more than the gift.”

— Augustine

[sabrandsilence]

Make The Most Of Laylatul al-Qadr

Ibn Rajab (رحمه الله)

"O you who has wasted the years of his life, there is nothing that will amend those lost and wasted years except for the night of Al-Qadr, for verily its value is equivalent to that of a lifetime."

[لطائفُ المعارف ص ١٩١]

[shaikhspears]

[weltenwellen]

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

[yekkes]

Men can’t love women the way women do and it’s a fact

[artbaby-deactivated20220723]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I always wanted to be alone.”

— Jean Rhys