madison

"you do not belong to anyone but yourself"

[l5577l]

Keep it private, ppl love to ruin things.

[helloimnotlerry]

[8-bitfiction]

[ipoetried]

“Like a breath of fresh air, I have constantly exhaled myself from my lungs. I think I like to pretend I am reborn into who I am meant to be. The truth is that I reinvent myself so often I have never given myself the chance. Every conversation is an opportunity to slip into a skin that is not mine yet fits just as uncomfortably as my own. I tell myself it takes time. But you can tell yourself that same thing every single day because it never won’t be true. I am sure there must come a day when I can no longer shapeshift. But until then, I am likeable, and I am needed, and I am here.”

— SHAPESHIFTING NOW (k.p.k)

[bnmxfld]

“I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald / Tender is the Night

[especially]

[understands]

[nothus-ex-lnferno-deactivated20]

i can't believe i'm real i hate this

[infpisme]

[deadwatered]

it’s too late

[heavenlyyshecomes]

Adonis, ‘The Passage’, from The Blood of Adonis: Transpositions of Selected Poems

[yuyuuyuyuu-deactivated20230726]

[lunasea]

i feel like nobody knows me the way i’d like to be known

[tristamateer]

[firstfullmoon]

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.

James Baldwin, from “The Black Scholar Interviews James Baldwin,” in Conversations with James Baldwin

[weltenwellen]

Velimir Khlebnikov, Collected Works, Vol. 3: Selected Poems, tr. by Paul Schmidt

[allmymetaphors]

“The desire to change is not enough. I must find a new way to be.”