[nemfrog]

“Ligation of the superior thyroid vessels.” Local and regional anesthesia. 1914. Internet Archive

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“Don’t ever go back to what broke you. Remember why you left.”

— amazingmovement.com (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“We will turn our madness into flowers,”

— Alice Walker, from her preface of “Turning Madness Into Flowers: New Poems,”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Lovely as the flowers, angry as the sea. The girl is angry as the sea.”

— Gil Vicente, from Collected Plays & Poems of G. V.; “The Girl Is Angry,”

[quotemadness]

“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”

— Mark Twain

[lilpieceofmyworld]

“Go for it. Whether it ends good or bad, it was an experience.”

[victoriousvocabulary]

[weareallwriters]

“Your first love is an illusion. You throw all these concepts and attach them to a person. And everyone after them will never measure up. This is because your first love has no expectations. You enter that relationship blind and naive. You love them unconditionally and give them your whole heart because you don’t know any better. And that is why it’s devastating when they leave, because we haven’t experienced the pain that follows their departure.”

— D.O. // The truth about your first love

[found-silhouettes]

[syntacked]

“I dream of you in colors that don’t exist.”

— Unknown

[fragrantblossoms]

David Seidner, Mondino, Silver, Italian Elle, 1987.

[liketinfoil]

“You deserve a lover who wants you disheveled, with everything and all the reasons that wake you up in a haste and the demons that won’t let you sleep. You deserve a lover who makes you feel safe, who can consume this world whole if he walks hand in hand with you; someone who believes that his embraces are a perfect match with your skin. You deserve a lover who wants to dance with you, who goes to paradise every time he looks into your eyes and never gets tired of studying your expressions. You deserve a lover who listens when you sing, who supports you when you feel shame and respects your freedom; who flies with you and isn’t afraid to fall. You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.”

— Frida Kahlo 🌺

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“You are charming. I would give up my solitude for you, gladly. If it is true that everyone resembles some creature in the animal kingdom, you are a hummingbird.”

— Renée Vivien, tr. by Jeanette H. Foster, from “A Woman Appeared To Me,”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“It was necessary to relearn to look at everything as if it were the first time. I looked at it as if it were the last.”

— Clarice Lispector, from a letter to Fernando Sabino wr. c. March 1959

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“I think it’s time I let you go. And that’s so hard to do because a part of me will be in love with you for the rest of my life. But I can’t do it anymore.”

—

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Longing, or dreading,”

— Barbara Howes, from The Collected Poems: 1945-1990; “Danae,”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

June Jordan, from “Haruko: Love Poems,” originally published c. July 1993