you know who

[dreamstars]

[lamignonette]

[koolthing0]

[heavensghost]

shame is sharp, and my skin gives so easy

[weltenwellen]

Victoria Chang, Obit

[metamorphesque]

A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis

[lunamonchtuna]

— Sylvia Plath, quoting an acquaintance in ‘The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath’

[hel7l7]

I know what is best but it still hurts

[luthienne]

Natasha Trethewey, from Thrall: Poems; "Miracle of the Black Leg"

[Text ID: —what knowledge haunts each body, / what history, what phantom ache?]

[theoptia]

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Thursday, October 18

Text ID: But my soul is heavy in my hands

[firstfullmoon]

Christopher Citro, from “The Hay Out There and the Hay in You”

[feral-ballad]

Fariha Róisín, from Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

[Text ID: “I never fought back, I learned how to cry silently, I bore my sins.”]

[postnuclearophelia]

Idc about TikTok at all in my head it doesn’t exist. What’s titok… I like fast cars fast cigarettes and fast women… 1979

[midori-kim]

[geryone]

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, Katie Farris

[geryone]

Above Ground, Clint Smith

[flowerytale]

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters