[feral-ballad]

Analicia Sotelo, from Virgin: Poems; “Do You Speak Virgin?”

[Text ID: “I’m afraid I am a blind goat / with a ribbon in my hair, with screws for eyes. / I’m afraid wherever I walk, it’s purgatory.”]

[metamorphesque]

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[weltenwellen]

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

[feral-ballad]

Jihyun Yun, from Some Are Always Hungry; “Reversal”

[Text ID: “I so want to survive this. Please lead me whole into another season so I may dare begin again.”]

[firstfullmoon]

when susan sontag wrote “I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it”

[metamorphesque]

   —  Anna Akhmatova, "The Sentence," from The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, translated by Judith Hemschemeyer

[text ID: Today I have so much to do: / I must kill memory once and for all, / I must turn my soul to stone, / I must learn to live again—]

[givemearmstopraywith]

my mom found this under the microwave

[luciferifilia-deactivated202504]

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. (via luciferifilia)

[flowerytale]

Anne Carson, from The Glass Essay

[soracities]

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red [ID in ALT]

[soracities]

Jeremy Radin, from Dear Sai

[weltenwellen]

Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

[flowerytale]

Wendy Cope, "From June to December: Summer Villanelle"

[newpsmoved]

summer 2023 is about reading in bed

[flowerytale]

Leonora Carrington, from The Hearing Trumpet

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Franz Kafka, from “The Castle.”

[thismomentforever]

love is buying someone a book and writing a note to them on the first page

[flowerytale]

Jane Austen, from Sense and Sensibility