[jazbaaati]

Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed.

[gusty]

[shesnake]

Shirkers (2018) dir. Sandi Tan

[aaaangel444]

[lifeinpoetry]

“this body is just a bad dream”

— Jess R. Sutton, from my only regret is having a body

[mxxnlightsblog]

As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.

- Haruki Murakami

[whatsonmydiary]

You feel so familiar...

I must have loved you in more than one lifetime.

-N.R.Hart

[ot3]

lord grant me the serenity to do my laundry, the courage to do my laundry, and the wisdom to do my laundry

[heavensghost]

idk how I made myself so unloveable but I did it

[honeytuesday]

so this shyness thing doesn't go away with age huh

[lady-byleth]

no, you just realize you have social anxiety

[wedarkacademia]

Louise Glück's

[shmups]

[primulaceas]

The Doubling of Self: An Interview with Richard Siken by Peter Mishler

[luthienne]

It is certain that the world dies a separate death for each one of us, and yet the world still exists.

Etty Hillesum, from a diary entry featured in An Interrupted Life: the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork (translated from the Dutch by Arnold J. Pomerans)

[weusedtobegiants]

MY MOTHER HAD TO SEVER some part of herself to let me go. I have felt the wound ever since.

Jeanette Winterson, from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal

[deviika]

Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

[weusedtobegiants]

though I know I dreamed violently.

Henry Miller, from A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953