She Opened the Gates

And her words flowed like tidal waves

[sheopenedthegates]

[sheopenedthegates]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I was softly absent,”

— Paul Valéry, tr. by Hilary Corke, from The Collected Works; “Snow,”

[conflictingheart]

“There are some feelings you will never find words for; you will learn to name them after the ones who gave them to you.”

— ~ Maza Dohta

[lohver]

today my prof said to my class “you don’t truly love someone until they’ve hurt you and you still think of them as the greatest person in the world. Love is the most violent act.” ok ok ok

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“CLYTEMNESTRA: One woman, a wound that shall not close.”

— Aeschylus, tr. by Herbert Smyth from The Complete Plays; “Agamemnon,”

[pivovarovah]

“I endure from moment to moment— days pass all alike, tortured, intense.”

— H.D., from The Collected Poems: 1912-1944; “The Gift (1921),” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[riskanothergoodbye]

“And even if it isn’t fine tomorrow, it will be another day.”

— Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse (via thequotejournals)

[neckkiss]

via weheartit

[untamedunwanted]

“I have always loved you more than I have ever loved myself and therein lies my greatest tragedy.”

— Nikita Gill, I Should Have Learned How To Love Me More

[drogonqueen-archive]

— F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to Isabelle Amorous, February 1920

[thatkindofwoman]

“I kissed his shadow. I kissed his shadow and this kiss did not touch him, this kiss was lost in the air and melted with the shadow. Our love of each other is like one long shadow kissing, without hope of reality.”

— Anaïs Nin, from “House of Incest,” published c. 1936

[sift]

“It kills me, I care for you so much and I mean nothing to you.”

— (via coral)

[sheopenedthegates]

*cared

[fragmentsofmybruisedbrokenheart]

I still talk about you

like you put the stars in the sky.

When the actual truth is,

you stole the sunshine from my life.

[queerly-belov3d]

if i’m not the love of your life, i’ll be the greatest loss instead

- the sun and her flowers // rupi kaur

[thegoodvybe]

[prince-alexei]

“Make sure you don’t start seeing yourself through the eyes of people who don’t value you. Know your worth even if they don’t.”

— (via purplebuddhaquotes)