REVERBS

[derangedrhythms]

Charles Baudelaire, Complete Poems; 'Spleen et Idéal' from 'The Alchemist of Sorrows', tr. Walter Martin

[thoughtkick]

“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”

— Thomas Moore

[89words]

“I wait and ache. I think I am healing.”

— Sylvia Plath, Three Women 

[derangedrhythms]

You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut […]

Catherynne M. Valente, from ‘Deathless’

[dailykafka]

- December 27, 1910

- The diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1913

[ID: December 27. My strength no longer suffices for another sentence. End ID]

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

The Book of Promethea, Hélène Cixous tr. Betsy Wing

[shisasan]

“I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.”

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

[thoughtkick]

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”

— Buddha

[perfectquote]

“People inspire you, or they drain you - pick them wisely.”

— Hans F. Hansen

[neckkiss]

Albert Camus

[perfectquote]

“Kill the part of you that believes it can’t survive without someone else.”

— Sade Andria Zabala, War Songs

[derangedrhythms]

...the necromantic day of the winter solstice itself!

Angela Carter, from 'Nights at the Circus'

[shisasan]

December 16, 1930 The early diary of Anaïs Nin, 1903-1977

[occultismosliterature]

“I looked at you with all the light and the darkness I possess.”

— George Seferis, from Summer Solstice: XI (tr. by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard)

[brok3np4radise-deactivated20250]

Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.

C.S. Lewis

[shisasan]

𝙻𝚘𝚜𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙱𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝙴𝚍𝚐𝚊𝚛 𝙰𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚘𝚎 (𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟹𝟸)

[queen-alice2]

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

— Paradise Lost, John Milton (b. 9 December 1608)