the life of the unrequited

…I have tried to put you out of my mind forever. Truly, I try to flourish, to find pleasure without an endless reference to you who made the days and years seem worth enduring.

[sad-house-of-mortality]

“I am really just a silhouette. A dark shape of a memory. A fragment of some fatal dream. I don’t exist here anymore. My heart has flown away.”

— Helaena C Moon  .  instagram  .  helaena.c.moon  (via hapless-hollow)

[meanwhilepoetry]

Every poem is still about you.

I’m doing my best to change that.

- Nikita Gill

[feral-ballad]

I love you, knot in my heart. I love you, hands on my hands, hands on my ribs, mouth on my mouth. I love you, stone in my shoe. I love only you. Only you. Only ever you.

Mabel, from Letters to juniper

[luciferetlucia]

Anna Kamieńska, In That Great River: A Notebook

[araekniarchive]

If it’s not too much, may I request a theme of forgiveness. I’ve been obsessed with the line “forgiveness is the lifeline of a sinner” and I’m working on a painting based on it but I wanted some extra quotes for extra inspiration.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

The Haunting of Hill House (2018) 1x10: Silence Lay Steadily

Flume, Never Be Like You

It’s Quiet Uptown, from Hamilton, script and lyrics taken from Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer

Richard Siken, Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out

@beouija (x)

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), 2x19: I Only Have Eyes for You

Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Forgiveness

@mageofcole, hettyc

Doctor Who (2005–), 9x08: The Zygon Invasion

[derangedrhythms]

“I invoked you, bribing Fate to produce you.”

— Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters; from ‘Rugby Street’

[deviika]

Rachel Forrest // Unknown // S. C. Lourie

[muhtesemz]

في القطار تبادلنا المقاعد ، كنتِ تريدين النافذة وكنتُ أريد أن أطل عليكِ

On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.

- Mahmoud Darwish

[learningfromthehands-blog]

“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.”

— The Fall, Albert Camus (via fuckyeahexistentialism)

[the-book-diaries]

“She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (via the-book-diaries)

[waller-bridge]

[thoughtkick]

“Some say it’s painful to wait for someone. Some say it’s painful to forget someone. But the worst pain comes when you don’t know whether to wait or forget.”

— (via emptystic)

[omegaverse]

forced to experience every moment of every day for the rest of my life

[femaleintimacy-deactivated20210]

[the-book-diaries]

“I wish I knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart…I do nothing all day, boredom settles in, I look at the sky so I get to feel even smaller than I already feel and my mind keeps poisoning itself uselessly.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

[la-sorcier-e]

“For awhile, I could not speak about you. For every time I opened up my mouth, only blood came out.”

— Helaena C Moon @ http://hapless-hollow.tumblr.com/  (via hapless-hollow)

[thoughtkick]

“I choose to love you in silence because in silence I find no rejection, and in silence no one owns you but me.”

— Rumi