homesick, noah kahan / vienna, billy joel / runaway, ​​half•alive / if i could be, paolo barretta / untitled, claude monet / the unabridged journals of sylvia plath, sylvia plath / disaster cat, danielpup / the diaries of franz kafka, franz kafka / eighteen, silas melvin / palo alto, dir. gia coppola. 

"sometimes, i thought my father was a God. i loved him that much."

— Leila Chattis, "Muslim Girlhood"

complicated relationships with your parents are like. you cut up fruit and bring it to my room without me asking. i can't remember the last time you told me that you were proud of me. you told me i wasn't good enough for you but i'm not even good enough for myself. your hugs feel like coming home. i can't tell you anything that happens in my life. i doubt myself every day because of something you said to me when i was eight. would you like to hear about my day? please don't ask me about my day. i miss you even though you're in the next room. i wish we didn't live together. i've never loved or resented anyone as much as i've loved and resented you. are you okay? are we okay? are we ever going to be okay?

it’s unfair how i have the responsibility to heal myself when i didn’t cause my wound in the first place

no offence but i think a lot of us me included don’t actually want romantic love as badly as we think and really are just lonely and crave a closeness and intimacy that feels out of reach in friendships because of society’s emphasis on marriage and the nuclear family so we project that into the never ending search for a perfect love and a soulmate when really we all just want to mean something to someone

@ijaazat \\ otessa moshfegh my year of rest and relaxation (via @anditslove) \\ via x \\ @softestsunbeams \\ alvarenga marques ode to the big sea \\ @softestsunbeams \\ christoffer relander blood ties

kofi

Susan Sontag, from “The Dummy”, featured in I, Etcetera: Stories

@polybius1201 bro hug

there's something about having a mother when you're a girl.

black swan //Buffet Etiquette, Hieu Minh Nguyen // Nayyirah Waheed//turtles all the way down// the cradell, berthe morisot// ??// the witch// Kyung-sook Shin, Please Look After Mom// lady bird// Take Care: Mothers, Daughters, and Inheriting Self-Hatred, Ella Wilson

Flame Snyder

Jane Austen - "Sense and Sensibility" / Mary Oliver Wild Geese / Casey McQuiston - Red, White & Royal Blue / My art I made in 5 minutes that turned out way too pretty / Sylvia Plath - The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath / Lyndsey Gallant / ? / @/heavensghost on tumblr

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Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

crush by richard siken // richard diebenkorn // richard diebenkorn // if there’s a way out i’ll take it by lora mathis

T-shirt that says “I <3 GOD’S SILENCE”

people are like what are you up to and i’m like seething with justified rage

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath // art by @/kosmiklia on ig // William Chapman // Virginia Woolf // Brian Andreas // artwork - flowers by Hanna Ilczyszyn // Elizabeth Kinkaid-Ehlers, Still Searching

awake as shit just looking at images trying to understand anything

if you are lucky you will love someone and their hair will thin and their breasts will sag and you will kiss them everywhere over and over again

I was having a conversation with someone who was lamenting over how to maintain attraction to our partners as their bodies change and age and feeling self conscious herself about that process and I was like. we should be so lucky as to see them through these many years as we are seen ourselves. Hope that helps u understand

— A messy haiku - jw