[typicalabdullah]

"لأجلك ألف مرة أخرى“

For you, a thousand times.

[altruisticwriter]

“I killed a plant once because i gaveit too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence.”

-joseolivarez

[mothprincess]

[fairydrowning]

I Still Love Him Song By Lana Del Rey

James Joyce, From A Letter To Nora Barnacle Written C. August 1904

Sorcery Of Thorns By Margaret Rogerson

[fairydrowning]

"No one has ever known you as I know you."

-Virginia Woolf, Night And Day

[fairydrowning]

"I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break."

-Marya Hornbacher, Wasted

[fairydrowning]

"I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, More Than Just A House

[altruisticwriter]

A happy ending:

“She agreed to love herself deeply.She was finally the sun of her own life.”

-Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction

[geryone]

Pink, Sylvie Baumgartel

[chillpotato]

- Mahmoud Darwish from 'Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut c. 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)

[weltenwellen]

Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: Five Heroic Journeys to Emotional Recovery

[metamorphesque]

— A Writer’s Diary, Virginia Woolf (August 31, 1928)

[text ID: This is the last day of August and like almost all of them of extraordinary beauty. Each day is fine enough and hot enough for sitting out; but also full of wandering clouds;]

[altruisticwriter]

-William Wordsworth

[weltenwellen]

Kaveh Akbar, from "Heritage", Calling a Wolf a Wolf

[soracities]

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

[soracities]

e.e. cummings, from “Ballade” (in Uncollected Poems), Complete Poems: 1904-1962

[Text ID: “Silently came the moon.”]

[newvision]

— Bob Dylan from When the Deal Goes Down on Modern Times (2006)

[flowerytale]

Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”  

[megairea]

Pedro Salinas, from “Night is the deep questioning”; To Live In Pronouns: Selected Love Poems (tr. by Edith Helman & Norma Farber)