Smile, child.

‚He makes no friends who never made a foe‘ Alfred Lord Tennyson

[lifeinpoetry]

Sometimes, I cry so hard I can feel it in my ribs. / I feel like the real me is backed into a corner inside me

— Ama Asantewa Diaka, from "Saturday Evening WhatsApp Message," Woman, Eat Me Whole

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

-Suicide letters from Anne sexton

[flowerytale]

Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin

[absentpresence]

thomas ruff photography

[poetry-siir]

[allsadnshit]

I will never get over how weird it feels to have tragic and emotional chapters of your life where you just also still go to work, and the grocery store, and see funny videos online all while feeling such paralyzing fear and heartache

life just goes on no matter what

[elirluna]

marcel the shell with shoes on (2021)

[nataliakoptseva]

Bernardino Zaganelli - Saint Sebastian

Detail

[remanence-of-love]

[bubbly-redhead1]

I hope…

[quotefeeling]

“I need you to love me a little louder today.”

— Unknown

[lady-admiration]

[le-immorte]

[the-boy-with-the-tiger-tattoo]

[lombardoink]

Quote from Dan Sheehan

[lifeinpoetry]

“Rage is not to be avoided, diminished, belittled. Rage is God. Better believe my rage is steeped in love.”

— Shira Erlichman, as quoted in Jacqui Germain’s When the Ghosts Come Ashore

[vixvaporub]

Berserk by Kentarou Miura – Chapter 269 ◉ Sword Beast

[shisasan]

𝚁𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚑 𝚃𝚊𝚐𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝙻𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚃𝚛𝚢𝚜𝚝 [𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟽-𝟷𝟿𝟺𝟷]

[feelingsoftheday]

Feeling unwanted changes you a lot.

[neurodivergenttales]

It’s literally shaped my whole life - I’ll always feel worthless