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the cherry on top

[violentwavesofemotion]

“Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.”

— Anne Sexton, from The Black Art (via violentwavesofemotion)

[isomesh]

"تشعر الطيور بشيء يشبه الألم (والخوف) قُبيل هجرتها، لا يكسر هذا الشعور سوى التحليق (التحريك السريع للجناحين)".

‏— لورين نيديكر

[naiiifa]

[theliteraryjournals]

“She’s a mess of gorgeous chaos and you can see it in her eyes.”

— Charles Bukowski

[luthienne]

“…I am half afraid to hope for what I long for.”

— Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mrs. A.P Strong, August 1851

[honeymoonphantasmagoria-deactiv]

“My favorite means of communication is otherworldly: dreams—meeting in dreams.”

— Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak featured in “A Russian Psyche: The Poetic Mind of Marina Tsvetaeva”

[veezesgirlfriend]

I like being a hidden gem

[heyvamin]

brown eyes and a heart of an angel

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

ophiraa:

I want to be cured Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it

— T.S. Eliot, from The Cocktail Party (Mariner, 1964)

[ahmedsalih]

أفي العدلِ صدرٌ لَمْ تَضِقْ عنه اضلعٌ،

تَضيقُ به السِّتُّ الجهات الشواسعُ؟

[weltenwellen]

Kahlil Gibran, from "If Love Were in The Flesh...", Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Love

[sylviaplathquotes]

“It was a long time ago. It doesn’t matter anymore. And yet I cannot let it go. I cannot let it go.”

— Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ruth Tiffanny Beuscher written c. July 1962 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[praying]

[finita--la--commedia]

“There are tiny memories which tear at my heart …”

— Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), in a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980),  Paris, dated Sunday, September 10, 1939, in: “Letters To Sartre”, translated from the French by Quintin Hoare

[ahmedsalih]

وَلا تَجزَع لِحادِثَةِ اللَّيالي

فَما لِحَوادِثِ الدُّنيا بَقاءُ

[undinesea]

Photo by Jürgen Neisch

[haciaelmar]

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