Magic & Loss

Literature, art and culture, psychology, spirituality quotes, and personal writings mostly. INFP, HSP.

[bbcsherlock]

i dont understand people who never reread a book or rewatch a movie or series. the best art will always improve upon being revisited. girl. let it reveal more of itself to you.

[wovi]

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joy sullivan

[mournfulroses]

Sinéad O'Connor, from her book titled "Rememberings," originally published in June 2021

[terrorignitis]

Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

[weltenwellen]

Glennon Doyle, Untamed

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, from “Otis”, Poems 1962 - 2012

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956

[itsnotwhatimlike]

embarrassment has good bones

[arylleth]

i have a longing that's killing me.

mahmoud darwish, memory for forgetfulness

[metamorphesque]

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Vladimir Nabokov

[feral-ballad]

Gabriela Mistral, tr. by Velma García-Gorena, from Gabriela Mistral’s Letters to Doris Dana; “December 28, 1949”

[Text ID: “I hope for love, because I give it.”]

[ryebreadgf]

girl with the nervous system of a prey animal

[shisasan]

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (1922)

[heartssarrow]

- Kazuo Ishiguro - The Paris Review Interview: The Art of Fiction.

[catmint1]

“Grief will keep you reaching back / for what is not there”

— Adrianne Kalfopoulou, “Poem in Pieces, a Log,” A History of Too Much

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “At the Airport”, Instructions for Traveling West

[ontologicalevil]

The trick is to be more curious than you're scared.