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Aquarius • Witch • Starseed • Aspiring Writer • My Favorite Spell Is In My Heart 🥀•

[mournfulroses]

Ada Limón, from "Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry," originally published in April 2026

[nixscriptum]

[infinitelyhisgirl]

∞

[kaytpoems]

and how could i recover from such silent devotion? 

quiet hand. silent night. romantic 

beginnings. one that lingers instead

of lasting. one that does not require 

martyr or modification of the mind.

~K.T.

[journalofanobody]

“…the rain is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh upon the glass and listen for reply…”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay (via hapless-hollow)

[thoughtkick]

“I was quiet; but I was not blind.”

— Jane Austen

[ends-2-beginnings]

[mainstream-love-deactivated2014]

[irishmansdaughter]

Source - Neşat Arıcı

[punlovsin]

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

jean rhys

[wovi]

[maisonmimosa]

[quotespile]

“Would carrying all of these sorrows and torments inside her condemn her to a life sentence of silence? She could never apologize enough or give thanks enough for being the survivor.”

— Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene

[bebs-art-gallery]

Female Rage in Paintings

Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi | Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist by Caravaggio | Judith Beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio | Jael and Sisera by Alessandro Turchi | Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Louis Finson | Jael slays Sisera by Ottavio Vannini | Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes by Orazio Gentileschi | La Douce Résistance by Michel Garnier | Timoclea Kills the Captain of Alexander the Great by Elisabetti Sirani | Untitled by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal | Salome Bearing the Head of Saint John the Baptist by an unknown copyist after c. 1631, originated from Guido Reni

[quotespile]

“Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.”

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

[whendidmythoughtsgocrazy]

And if i'm meant to be alone, please take away my desire to be loved.

k.b. // unknown

[mournfulroses]

Erica Jong, from a poem titled "Statue," featured in Loveroot: Poems, originally published in 1975