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you’re allowed 2 minutes of sadness then you gotta keep it gangsta

[mournfulroses]

Angela Carter, from "Nights at the Circus," originally published in 1984

[whalesinspace]

I feel an inexplicable feeling to flee everything I am

[darkacademiaposts]

I'm in pain because the day is ending and somehow I am never healing.

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters

[vulners-blog]

"I fear I will be ripped open and found unsightly."

—Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters

[derangedrhythms]

. . . with most people, I prefer that they think of me as normal or as normal as possible . . .

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters ⁠— W. D. Snodgrass, 1st February 1959

[misandriste]

LANA DEL REY Coachella 2024

[whalesinspace]

i think i matter so little to family that even if i killed myself, they would only think about how it affected them

they wouldn't understand why

they didn't when my uncle killed himself, no one ever worried about him

[whalesinspace]

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[virginiewoolf]

Katharine Taylor Brennan, from The Personal Journal of an Ordinary Person.

[virginiewoolf]

“So I have survived the struggle — so what now? I have survived — but for what?”

— Katharine Taylor Brennan, from The Personal Journal of an Ordinary Person

[virginiewoolf]

Bassey Ikpi, from I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying.

[virginiewoolf]

“I thought I should die. Too much of reality. Too much of truth. I wanted none of it.”

— Emilie Autumn, from The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

[virginiewoolf]

Won-pyung Sohn, from Almond.

[whalesinspace]

things are getting bad again, my stomach hurts, and nothing feels real