[l0cations]

[detached0l]

[konoko]

[shisasan]

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

[metamorphesque]

― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

[metamorphesque]

"To forget, to forget ...", Vahan Teryan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

[foxeia]

Wendy Swan

[boringangel]

Sotce

[millthompson]

[toocooltobeforgotten]

that james baldwin quote where he says, “it took many years of vomiting up all the filth i’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before i was able to walk on the earth as though i had a right to be here.”

[kalimaxxing]

the idealized version of my tomorrow self will fix this

[kalimaxxing]

not again

[holorifle]

saying “hm. must be the curse” every time something bad happens and refusing to elaborate is my new hobby

[mournfulroses]

“But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.”

— Margaret Atwood, from Moral Disorder and Other Stories; “The Other Place,”

[mournfulroses]

Manuel Gutierrez Najera, tr. by Samuel Beckett, from "Pax Anima,"

[disgustinggf]

getting better but also becoming worse. u wouldn't get it

[valtsv]

you have a wound that will never heal? me too! actually it's gradually widening and expanding, consuming more of me with each passing day [props my chin in my hands and smiles at you] at what point do you think i'll become the wound itself and not simply the bearer?

[germboyfriend]

ITS ALL A BLUR, THE PERSON YOU ARE AND THE PERSON YOU WERE.