a ⠀𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 , ⠀a ⠀𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 , ⠀and ⠀a ⠀𝐭𝐞𝐧⠀ reminded ⠀me ⠀of ⠀a ⠀𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 ⠀𝚂𝚃𝙾𝚁𝚈 .
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“I feel very small. I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.”
Anaïs Nin, from nearer the moon: the previously unpublished unexpurgated diary,1937-1939
Mary Oliver, from long life: essays and other writings
goat and sheep in some kind of dream space ☁️
“Forgive me if I don’t talk much at times. It’s loud enough in my head.”
— Unknown
{—Amy Lowell, from The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell, "The Fruit Garden Path " // Mahmoud Darwish }
[Quotes:Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides/ prayer, tathève simonyan/carole maso, the art lover /Audre Lorde, from a letter to Pat Parker featured in Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde & Pat Parker/Jannate winterson/Takuboku Ishikawa, tr. by Tamae K. Prindle, from The Selected Poems; "A Love Song to Myself,"/Ashe Vernon, from "Buried," Not a Girl/Marion James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf//paintings: Pinterest]
spring 🌼 catherine called birdy (2022)
negative self talk "im going to die here" vs positive self talk "im going to start killing"
“Everything is burning, my soul, body, outside, inside, heart, flesh. Do you understand? Do you really understand?”
María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus written c. March 1952
THE O.C. ( 2003 - 2007 ) ↳ season 2 episode 9
Jack Gilbert, from Collected Poems; “Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina”
When will this pie be ready? – Soon, but I have to make the whipped cream first and let it set. – I'll be here. It's a masterpiece.
Julie & Julia (2009) dir. Nora Ephron
*makes a jerking off motion every time someone with authority talks*
how am i doing? oh I’m fine except i’m in a constant state of nostalgia and sentimentality over everyone I’ve ever loved and every age I’ve ever been and every phase of my life and every job I’ve worked and I’m constantly missing people and places that I can never go back to but it’s cool it’s fine
dont need therapy i need to pick my own flesh off layer by layer in a ritual of purification and catharsis
i overthink. i overlove. i overfeel
My 14 year old brother just took a drink of hot chocolate and hissed like he'd knocked back a shot of vodka then set it down and went "ah... that's the good stuff."
they hate me for my girlish whimsy and for my pathological degree of avoidant behavior