Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

Text ID: Everything in me tends to go on to become something else. My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while…

“I always think it’s a good sign when a man likes cats. It shows he doesn’t feel the need to be in constant control of things.”

— Anne Tyler, Clock Dance

— December 18, 1910 / Franz Kafka diaries

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

sorry for the alyosha posting it will happen again

I am not meant for casual. I was born for soul crushing devotion.

prince myshkin every time he meets someone, for some reason