[tremblingafterdark]

An absence that lingers.

[tremblingafterdark]

“I wish I knew how to quit you.”

— Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

[tremblingafterdark]

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

— Oscar Wilde

[tremblingafterdark]

When you've tasted abandonment, you know when it's coming. You can smell it in the air.

[tremblingafterdark]

Till our fingers decompose, keep my hands in yours.

[tremblingafterdark]

I think people who purposely point out someone's insecurities are real losers. Because it takes a specific kind of emptiness to look at someone's soft spot and decide that's exactly where you want to push. That's not confidence. That’s just someone showing you how little they think of themselves by how little they think of you.

~thefallenpoet

[tremblingafterdark]

what’s more dangerous: blind faith or no faith at all?

[tremblingafterdark]

you knew my depths

[tremblingafterdark]

“You were destined for me. Perhaps as a punishment"

-Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

[tremblingafterdark]

Sadia Hakim, from The Weight of Tender Things

[tremblingafterdark]

pale existence

[tremblingafterdark]

The moment of parting arrived, yet my heart did not tremble;

What could I lose of someone I had never truly possessed?

[tremblingafterdark]

this was enough.

[tremblingafterdark]

📖 The Sense of an Ending — Julian Barnes

Everyone sees the end, no one sees the breaking.

[tremblingafterdark]

Don’t stop feeling like this.

Just make sure the person you give this love to

knows its weight

and respects it. 🤍

[tremblingafterdark]

[tremblingafterdark]

It cost me myself.