𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 ♡

𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬.

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– Jamie Oliveira | from "Erosion"

[bnmxfld]

I still taste the past.

Unknown

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Euripides, tr. by Anne Carson, from An Oresteia; “Orestes,” publ. c. 2009

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[mentalquotes]

[quotemadness]

“Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you’re alive.”

— Jessi Kirby

[quotemadness]

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

— Unknown

[quotemadness]

“I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express.”

— Charlotte Brontë

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟶, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[quotemadness]

“I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.”

— Gandhi

[writingdotcoffee]

“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world…”

— James Baldwin

[writingdotcoffee]

“What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.”

— Erica Jong

[gnossienne]

[theoptia]

When I look at my life and at the secret color which it has, I feel as if tears were trembling in my heart.

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1935-1951; September 22, 1937

[megairea]

“I’m only half here. I’m only half wicked, and half of me is down there with you, clean and bright and crystal-clear as running water…”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (tr. by Stuart Gilbert & Lionel Abel), 1947

[antigonick]

“ELEKTRA : I am the shape you made me. Filth teaches filth.”

— Sophokles, Elektra (tr. by Anne Carson)

[writingdotcoffee]

“In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration.”

— John Steinbeck