Anne Sexton, From A Letter Featured In Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

— Vincent van Gogh

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

there is something 2 be said about how rodya killed the pawnbroker with the blunt end of the axe. Like hes so extremely repressed that even in that single moment of energy and animalistic violence he was still 'holding back' by not using the sharp blade.

It would have made it more real to him, if he used the sharp end. Thats what mass murderers and slaughterers do, and hes not one of them, hes different.

“We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality

“And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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

have u guys seen the actual unedited bunker pictures

James Baldwin.