Alondra

i aspire to be one of those people who are known for always carrying a book around, having good taste in music and treating people nicely.

Still, there is this terrible desire to be loved.

Still, there is this horror at being left behind.

(Michael Cunningham)

Sophocles, Philoctetes

Mahmoud Darwish, from Almond Blossoms and Beyond; “I Sit At Home,”

1. Excerpt from The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton // 2. Hans Vandekerckhove - Going Home (2003) // 3. Journey to the interior by Margaret Atwood // 4. Hans Vandekerckhove - Whispering Pines (2006)

— (via hellish-bebe)

i’m selfish | credit

Faiz Ahmad Faiz, tr. by Victor Kiernan, from a poem titled “You who have Known that Cheek,”

— Sylvia Plath, from “Tongues of Stone,” Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings

And we are all just fighting to survive a world where I miss you doesn’t mean I’m coming back, and i love you doesn’t mean I’ll stay.

Chloe Frayne