discombobulated.

baka.

[lunamonchtuna]

— Mary Lambert, Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across; "You Are with the Wrong Person" (via lunamonchtuna)

[rosejuicewonderdrunk]

“don’t look at me like that like i can do better like this sadness is a well that I jumped into on purpose nothing is on purpose”

—Mary Lambert, from “Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across”.

[aphonicchaos]

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Sue zhao/Ryan O'Connell

[wedarkacademia]

“You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?”

― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

[academia-lucifer]

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

— John Green.

[alchemisedsenlinyu]

the secret diary of laura palmer, jennifer lynch

[wedarkacademia]

[prettypydei-deactivated20250719]

If I have to move on, I'll have to pretend I died somewhere, but you're mourning for someone else.

A "Urielle."

If I have to let you go, I'll have to pretend that I drew flowers in the sky for others to see, and not for you—who never looked at the garden of my love dedicated for you.

A "Urielle."

[feral-ballad]

Yun Dong-Ju, tr. by Kyung-nyun Kim Richards & Steffen F. Richards, from Sky, Wind, and Stars; “The Road”

[Text ID: “and the reason I am living is / only because I am looking / for what I have lost.”]

[words-and-coffee]

Every day of my life has been something other than my last. Every day, an extinction misfires, and I put it to work.

Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On : Upon Learning That Some Korean War Refugees Used Partially Detonated Napalm Canisters as Cooking Fuel

[words-and-coffee]

Here, in the inconceivable future, I am unable. To narrate. To speak in the simple past, facts lined up like soldiers on a horizon.

Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On - Upon Learning That Some Korean War Refugees Used Partially Detonated Napalm Canisters as Cooking Fuel

[feral-ballad]

Lee Soho, tr. by Soje, from Catcalling; “A disappeared person and a forest that didn’t disappear or the opposite of that”

[Text ID: “I opened some quote marks / and cried only in your sentences”]

[wanderologie-]

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[qbtravels]

““Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.””

— ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32)

[feral-ballad]

Yun Dong-Ju, tr. by Kyung-nyun Kim Richards & Steffen F. Richards, from Sky, Wind, and Stars; “The Cross”

[Text ID: “I would hang my head / and quietly bleed / blood that would blossom like a / flower / under a darkening sky.”]

[feral-ballad]

Yun Dong-Ju, tr. by Kyung-nyun Kim Richards & Steffen F. Richards, from Sky, Wind, and Stars; “Street Flowing”

[Text ID: “Let’s be happy and hold hands again some other morning”]