[thedemonking]

When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

[sidneysheldon]

Sidney Sheldon, “Morning, Noon, and Night”

[mournfulroses]

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

[syrenki]

there is something within me that i would like removed

[midnightglances]

it hurts to remember and it hurts to forget

[pup-purgatory]

my therapist sent me this

[griefasagarden]

This dome is not my sky, yet this sky is my night / and the keys are mine, the minarets are mine, the lanterns are mine, and I / am also mine.

— mahmoud dariwsh, i have behind the sky a sky, trans. fady joudah

[griefasagarden]

And I know I will exit / my banner as a bird that does not alight on trees in the garden. / I will exit all of my skin, and my language.

mahmoud darwish, i have behind the sky a sky, trans. fady joudah

[oncce-againn]

took a lot of rage to be this calm

[perfectquote]

“I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself did I know who I really was.”

— Sade Andria Zabala

[propertiesofjoy]

rainer maria rilke, letters to a young poet

[andletliveagain]

It’s kinda cool how someone can just pop into your life all of a sudden and become so important to you within such a small amount of time. I think that’s what makes life so interesting though. There’s always a reason to be hopeful for the future because you never know what good things will come your way next.

[mirethos]

[shisasan]

“The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.”

— Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game Originally published 1943

[justablkkid]

[shisasan]

a constant hunger for something beyond the psychological limits of the world

[2urbo]