* 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐃.

contrary to wound, i still know nothing of defeat.

[rylie-barton]

𝐑𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐄-𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐎𝐍.  it was not the dying that mattered, it was the sadness, the wonder. the few good people crying in the night. the few good people.  [ ... ]  an independent original character as remembered by rachel ! 

[taiturner]

Sometimes, alone is safer. That’s not the conventional wisdom.

[darichonne]

[weltenwellen]

Cathy Park Hong, from "Spring and All"

[acecroft]

THE WALKING DEAD 2.03

[fairywomb]

“Don’t forget to love her. The little girl you used to be. Perhaps She lies within you. Untucked. Sleeping peacefully.”

— “Nurture.” By Kiana Llanos (via arabarabarab)

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Con nhớ mẹ không? / flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

— I miss you more than I remember you.”

[theoptia]

Jean-Paul Sartre, from No Exit: And Three Other Plays; “No Exit”

Text ID: Those big tragic eyes of hers—with that martyred look...

[lilsunshiny]

EUPHORIA 2.08 | “All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name“

[tvinspo]

SINGLE DRUNK FEMALE (2022-)

[cleocazo]

PEACEMAKER ( 2022 )   

[primulaceas]

Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia

[argonauticae]

“ANTIGONE: And also because - Oh, my darling, my darling, forgive me; I’m going to cause you quite a lot of pain.”

— Antigone, Jean Anouilh (trans. Lewis Galantiere)

[lifeinpoetry]

Things that are brave are often painful, I’m not sure why we do them, really, and things that are brave don’t often look brave and maybe won’t for two hundred years—

— Megan Fernandes, from “Regret Is a Blue Dive,” Good Boys

[bo-kryzze]

AGENT CARTER | “Better Angels”

[icarusgf]

You still crave lemonade, but the taste doesn’t satisfy you as much as it used to. You still crave summer, but sometimes you mean summer, five years ago.

Alida Nugent  (via siikens)

[wordholic-deactivated20220819]

i think i may be a bad person.

fyodor dostoevsky / pat the bunny / richard siken / trista mateer / clarice lispector / franz kafka