[howifeltabouthim]

“I always feared this would happen, I thought it would be a pure horror, but it’s just home”

— Sharon Olds, from Stag’s Leap

[sewages]

“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via melisica)

[women-loving-art]

“to be, not seem / to be, to be the dreamer, not the dream.”

— Suniti Namjoshi, from The Sleeping Fool

[quotefeeling]

“and at some point I thought to myself: ‘no person deserves this,’ and I realized that includes even me.”

— Unknown

[drugstoreperfumemp3]

“As I cannot be the hero, let me be the monster, and lesson them in fear in place of love.”

— George R.R. Martin, The Winds of Winter [x] (via nereiids)

[avienpare]

"I was jealous of the monster, how it didn't care what it was or did. No shame." Monstrilio, Gerardo Sámano Córdova

[andante-elegiaco]

“I have dreamed of you so often, you are no longer real.”

— Dean Young, from “Robert Desnos (1900-1945),” in Bender: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2012)

[fatimaamerbilal]

fatima aamer bilal, from so this is all i will ever be?

[text id: how did i grow old so young? / how did i forget to live before i lived at all?]

[cruellheaven]

“under a sky so black it is blue / above an ocean so blue it is black”

— Anis Mojgani, from In the Pockets of Small Gods (via voirlvmer)

[soracities]

“You’re [a] monster. But so am I—which is why I can’t turn away from you.”

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel

[violentwavesofemotion]

“And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.”

— Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals (via violentwavesofemotion)

[chocolatefrogs]

“Stars are not small or gentle. They are writhing and dying and burning. They are not here to be pretty. I am trying to learn from them.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, “Sky Poem”

[seaymph]

“There is blood in all the things you say.”

— Unknown (via wordsnquotes)

[jokeboy-deactivated20260221]

sorry I've been posting like shit lately I got picked up by a large bird and have only been able to get on tumblr when we fly near a cell tower. oh great it's heading back towards the mountai

[fairydrowning]

"What I needed seemed to be absent everywhere."

– Charles Bukowski.

[verdi-gris]

Do you ever feel like people want pieces of you but never all of you?

[allforluv-deactivated20180702]

find a way or make one