It's Ridiculous How Invested I Am In This Book After What's Basically Five Chapters Of Exposition. How

— December 18, 1910 / Franz Kafka diaries

Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me

Dostoevsky is one of those writers who, after showing you your fragmental vileness and natural disfigurement, teach you why you need to learn to love yourself.

Anaïs Nin, from a novel titled "A Spy in the House of Love," published in 1954

–Beau Taplin

snoopy after reading white nights by dostoevsky

I am not meant for casual love. I was born for soul consuming love and obsession.

obsessed where stories where it is like. the mistakes are unfixable and the worst thing that could happen happened and nothing can go back to how it was. but there was still love in this and love will continue after this and love endures always.

as soon as you feel the summer melancholy creep in on you and your brain is telling you to rot in bed BITCH NO you just need to swim in a lake and dry in the sun