[weltenwellen]

“Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?”

— Charles D’Ambrosio, The Dead Fish Museum: Stories

[weltenwellen]

Chelsea Dingman, Through a Small Ghost

[havingapoemwithyou]

refusal to mourn by Andrea Cohen

[inloveforevr-deactivated2025041]

“You have to simply be stripped down and made very lean so that you can see who you are and then you make peace. It’s difficult but it’s really important otherwise you never arrive at this delicious place called adulthood.”

- Toni Morrison, on confronting yourself.

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[lettherebemusicblog]

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Prove to me I’m not gonna die alone. Put your arm around my collarbone, And open the door…

[s-ol4psismmmmmmmm]

sevdaliza !!

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Donte Collins

[cozycottagelife]

"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o'clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you've never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride."

- Anthony Bourdain

[jazbaaati]

Etel Adnan, The Cost for Love We Are Not Willing to Pay.

[weltenwellen]

Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead

[typewriter-worries]

[ Text ID: i’m learning to become all the space i need. i laughed today. for a second I was unhaunted. i was the sun, not light from some dead star. ]

[bonkmp3]

Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

[Text ID: He nods. “I know. You asked me who I was, and—it was like the answer came out of nowhere. Sometimes it feels like I didn’t even exist before that. Like you invented me.” /End ID]

[liefst]

i keep thinking about how it feels as if we have developed ourselves an obsession with "healing" these days – and a friend said something that really stuck in my head – "if you're part of a community where you're always trying to heal, then that means that you always need to be sick". like i think that we're all taking this ideal of healing too far saying that everybody needs therapy all the time and resetting your gut biome or surrounding yourself with positive energy or whatever it is that you can come up with. you're always focusing on something that is "wrong" and that needs to be eliminated, after which everything will be okay again. it all sounds like just another way of maintaining an illusion of control over your life and i don't think it's doing us any good

[flowerytale]

Clarice Lispector — Água Viva

[beguines]

Amy Hempel, "Cloudland", Sing to It

[dysphcria]

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“Oh mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head. See the sea wants to take me, the knife wants to slit me. Do you think you can help me?”

[passionpeachy-deactivated202312]

these >>>> perfectly round and white pearls

[safberry93]

The Swan, No. 1 by Hilma af Klint is one of her most well known works.