Help In Time (Charles Verlat, 1872)

PVRIS - Good Enemy

Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦

𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘯𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦

𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺, 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘰

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘝𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦

𝘈𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶

𝐃𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧 - 𝐕𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭

“What's eating you alive / Might help you to survive / And even the nights, they could get better / And even the days ain't all that bad”

- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Me and Mia

“It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don’t want to lose someone, even if they don’t deserve our forgiveness.”

— Deb Caletti

Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.

Florence Welch

You brought to life the part of me I thought had died.

-Britt Nicole

“It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn’t that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.”

— Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt (Tin House Books, March 7, 2023) 

me rereading my own poems: what the fuck do you mean by that