The Lady Van

Africa| Floral| Summer| '93

[advice-animal]

[lunchboxpoems]

[thelostcanyon]

Clouds from two colliding air masses, J-Six Ranch, Cochise County, Arizona.

[nobrashfestivity]

Yōichi Midorikawa

[perfeqt]

“We’re so distracted by how things end, we usually forget how beautiful the beginning was.”

— Lamiya Waheed

[sweatermuppet]

from 1969 by alex dimitrov, published in love and other poems

[Text ID: And whatever language is good for, a sign, a message left up there that reads: “Here men from planet Earth first set foot upon the moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.” Then returned to continue the war. /End ID]

[perfeqt]

“Don’t give them a taste of their own medicine. They already know what it tastes like. Give them a taste of your own medicine. If they lied, let your medicine be honesty. If they played with your emotions, let your medicine be maturity. Don’t be afraid to be yourself, even if it means removing yourself from lives that you want to be in. You are, no doubt, worthy of being valued for who you are. So be who you are.”

— Najwa Zebian

[octoberloved]

[derangedrhythms]

Anne Sexton, The Awful Rowing Toward God; from 'Is It True?'

TEXT ID: Occasionally the devil has crawled in and out of me,

[thoughtkick]

“She was still holding out for something that wasn’t going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.”

— Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants

[quotefeeling]

“A cage went in search of a bird.”

— Franz Kafka

[cloudswamp]

more and more, margaret atwood

[poetryforall]

“Memories”

[thoughtkick]

“Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn’t the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain…Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That’s the hard thing.”

— Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

[perfeqt]

“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”

— Emery Allen

[ethelcainlovebot]

- Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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[Text ID: It’s spring, you’re young, you’re lovely, you have a right to be happy. Come back into the world. /End ID.]

[perfeqt]

“It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.”

— Sylvia Plath