keep me company..

[fuckfl]

[skgonzalezstories]

Couple goals.

[jamesusilljournal]

Departure, cyanotype, Thomas Hager, 2009

[apocryphics]

“I think women like to read about murderous mothers and lost little girls because it’s our only mainstream outlet to even begin discussing female violence on a personal level. Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It’s invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails — a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other. And the mental violence is positively gory. Women entwine. Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I’ve witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters. Innuendo, backspin, false encouragement, punishing withdrawal, sexual jealousy, garden-variety jealousy — watching women go to work on each other is a horrific bit of pageantry that can stretch on for years. Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of women. […] I particularly mourn the lack of female villains — good, potent female villains…I’m talking violent, wicked women. Scary women. Don’t tell me you don’t know some. The point is, women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves — to the point of almost parodic encouragement — we’ve left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.”

— Gillian Flynn, “I Was Not a Nice Little Girl”

[macrolit]

“All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say ‘No’ and said 'Yes.’”

—

Moss Hart (1904-1961) American playwright, director

[amargedom]

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”

—

[goodreadss]

Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling.

(via amargedom)

[aqua-regia009]

Head of Medusa (1617-1618) by Peter Paul Rubens

[mournfulroses]

19-year old Anne Sexton posing a la Jane Russell in “The Outlaw,”

[krisstenb]

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[macrolit]

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche (b. 15 October 1844)

[macrolit]

“Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.”

— Sherwood Anderson in a letter to his son, 1927

[macrolit]

“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone.”

—

James Baldwin

[macrolit]

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

— Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

[babybnc]

source ig : @mathilde.mai

[thepumpkin-queenn]

[jeou]

[macrolit]

“The moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever for the better. It’s an enormous force for good.”

— Barack Obama (b. 4 August 1961)