Rotting Bibliophile

♡ 26 ♡ She/Her ♡

[seeingthrume]

because one day

you mean the world to me

and the very next day

you are what i hate the most

wish i could detest you

as much as i love you

[tifararicci1998]

My dear, people are not homes; they are experiences, momentary presences in your life. You cannot hold on to them forever.

[nothingspecialjustasoul]

Suddenly I don't want anyone to know me as deeply anymore, which is weird because I have always yearned for someone to understand my soul

[thoughtkick]

“I want to be with you, it is as simple, and as complicated as that.”

— Charles Bukowski

[hadeskores]

Take the blood right from my veins and see how beautiful it looks bleeding out of me, it's almost as beautiful as you, almost...

[hopelessrotting]

[mournfulroses]

Jeanette Winterson, from "One Aladdin Two Lamps," originally published in November 2025

[derangedrhythms]

And I don’t know, don’t know, if we belong together or apart, except that my soul lingers over the skin of you

Anne Sexton, 45 Mercy Street; from ‘Waking Alone’

[poetic-questions]

from "Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1939-1947)"

[geryone]

Sugarblood, Liz Bowen

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I feel that I’m losing the most beautiful years of my life.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to his sister written c. March 1912

[remanence-of-love]

[surqrised]

“Please be patient with me. Sometimes when I’m quiet it’s because I need to figure myself out. It’s not because I don’t want to talk. Sometimes there are no words for my thoughts.”

— Kamla Bolanos

[deeposts88]

It just won't stop growing inside,

No matter how much I resist it, it won't go away.

One day, I am bidding you goodbye, the next I am yearning.

[versesofourhearts]

-versesofourhearts

[tragiclore]

Like ivy against a brick wall.

[nixscriptum]

If you hold me without hurting me—you’ll be the first who ever did.