[quotefeeling]

“Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

[mournfulroses]

Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

[shisasan]

5 May, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[shisasan]

5 May, 1937 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov

[mournfulroses]

Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

[thoughtkick]

“I knew I could be brave. I already had been for a very long time.”

— Jenna Evans Welch, from Love & Olives

[thehopefulquotes]

“Just because you’re angry doesn’t mean you have the right to be cruel.”

— Unknown

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath

[mournfulroses]

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

[letterful]

[danger]

La Collectionneuse `( 1987 ) 

[wedarkacademia]

“Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.”

― Elana Dykewomon, Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities

[weltenwellen]

Joanna Klink, from "Two Trees"

[derangedrhythms]

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'

[feral-ballad]

Rafael Guillén, tr. by Sandy McKinney, from I’m Speaking; “Splintering”

[Text ID: “I love you. / Silt. Bone, tooth, / cheek, melting away, caving in, and I love you.”]

[elizabethsinclair]

love elizabeth s.