oh the fragility

circa 2002

[surqrised]

“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”

— Hafiz of Shiraz

[imjusthella-gay]

movie theater date, except I'm fingering you under your skirt and shoving my fingers in your mouth to keep you quiet, all while demanding that you keep your eyes on the screen

[utenah]

“Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Sensible Thing” in The Short Stories

[existential-celestial]

Juan Ramón Jiménez,  from “LOVE,”  in Selected Writings of Juan Ramón Jiménez (translated by  Hoffman Reynolds Hays)

[altar-ov-plagues]

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— Haruki Murakami, from “Dance, Dance, Dance.”

[astereaus]

Nazim Hikmet, A Spring Piece Left in the Middle

[psikonauti]

Lili Wood - Bruissement d'ailes

[ololygas]

Natalie Shapero

[firstfullmoon]

Gwendolyn Brooks, from “To be in love”

[kafk-a]

[finehoney]

i am holding my loneliness and she is a teenage girl with puffy eyes, and i love her more than i have ever loved anyone

[trees-waiting]

“Perhaps love is to give one’s own solitude to other, for it is the very last thing we have to offer.”

– Clarice Lispector

[honlie]

“Everyone arrives one day and asks, is this it? And the stars answer back with more stars.”

— Victoria Chang, poet. 

[firstfullmoon]

“…art has always had a balancing effect on your mind; it is a reminder that you are more than a body and its accompanying grief.”

— Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House (via luthienne)

[yearningheart]

Sheila Heti, Pure Color

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