"Absolutely No One Comes To Save Us But Us."

Federico García Lorca, from "3 Tragedies; Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alta,"

my psychiatrist just diagnosed me with 19th century russian literature character

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

seeing that dostoyevsky quote circulated as a tumblr deep quote that’s like “your worst sin is you have destroyed yourself for nothing” or whatever annoys me to no end bc 1) context is raskolnikov telling sonya that her trauma of being forced into prostitution to keep her family from starving is worth nothing because she will never save them which is kind of a thesis the book disproves over and over again as its main theme and 2) that’s rich coming from someone who axe murdered two women because he didn’t leave the house for a few weeks and came up with a theory that said it was ok actually

Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Short Story" in The Collected Poems

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.

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

Manhattan is a Lenape Word, Natalie Diaz | Winter Without You, Sarah Kay 

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