in love with books and retellings

24 | once i was beautiful. now i am myself

[shisasan]

When they say “I got you, babe” but Vladimir Nabokov said “My darling, my life, my dear love. I forbid you to be miserable, I love you”

[thatlaiagirl]

I’m an insurmountable mountain along my own path. But sometimes through a word of yours or a word I read, suddenly everything becomes clear.

[logophilist1982]

Franz Kafka & love

[drizzlingtears]

the sluttiest thing a man can do is read poetry. like ok whore kiss me.

[thatlaiagirl]

if he's really meant for me i take it

[thatlaiagirl]

i don't want to be just in a relationship, i want to fall in love why can't people understand!!!!!!!

[her-written-thoughts]

just when you're feeling low / unmotivated, remind yourself of this verse;

وَلَلْـَٔاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌۭ لَّكَ مِنَ ٱلْأُولَىٰ

and the next life is certainly far better for you than this one.

- Qur'ān {93:4}

[thatlaiagirl]

thanks. makes me want to dieeee

[thatlaiagirl]

in need of a whaling cry rn

[thatlaiagirl]

in my i wanna die era again

[disgustinggf]

if he really liked you, he'd chop off his hand and give it to you so you could always hold it. focus on yourself sis

[thatlaiagirl]

i will never accept anything less tbh

[flowerytale]

Natalie Díaz, from “American Arithmetic”, Postcolonial Love Poem (2020)

[thatlaiagirl]

“My distance is not a distance

at all but a closeness so close to close it’s closer

to fear than flying.”

[shisasan]

𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: February 1. Nothing, merely tired. END ID]

[thatlaiagirl]

tbh tho

[weltenwellen]

Hari Alluri, from “Ancestral Memory”, After Kwame Dawes 

[thatlaiagirl]

“The truth is that men are the empty ones. And women are meant to fill them up. I could count on a few fingers the men I ever truly admired. Give them long enough and men are always disappointing.’’

[thatlaiagirl]

i don't look back and i don't look forward and today doesn't exist

[thatlaiagirl]

“Ah, yes, the most dangerous person at the party is always the girl sitting alone with a book.”

i couldn't agree more