october feelings

poetry | quotes | thoughts | literature

[mournfulroses]

Makenzie Campbell, from a poem featured in "2 a.m. Thoughts," originally published in 2017

[nothingspecialjustasoul]

[whendidmythoughtsgocrazy]

And if I'm meant to be alone, please take away my desire to be loved.

k.b. // unknown

[melanch-oholic]

!!!!!

[nothingspecialjustasoul]

I break my own heart by expecting people to be as attached to me as I am to them.

[weltenwellen]

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Staying Quiet"

[weltenwellen]

Maya C. Popa, from “Dear Life”, Wound Is the Origin of Wonder

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Fortesa Latifi; everything there is

[feral-ballad]

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “These Days People Are Really Selling Me on California”

[mournfulroses]

Anne Michaels, from her novel titled "Held," originally published in 2003

[ashstfu]

someone said we had more fun in childhood because we didnt have any past memories to linger on and it has stuck with me ever since

[ashstfu]

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. July 1907. featured in Selected Letters

[deviika]

Nikos Kazantzakis // Fyodor Dostoevsky

[weltenwellen]

Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead

[meanwhilepoetry]

I'm just trying to become someone who the child inside me will not hate. I'm trying to be everything she needed and did not receive. She is so lonely still. It's not fair that she is so lonely still.

Nikita Gill

[weltenwellen]

Chelsea Dingman, from "Psychogeography"

[weltenwellen]

Marina Tsvetaeva, The Same Solitude

[flowerytale]

Anne Carson, from The Glass Essay