Tapasya Suman
Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West wr. c. August 1927
“Do you think it’s easy, not biting the one you love? Try loving someone so much your mouth is only at home in the place where your teeth meet the flesh of your beloved.”
— Jim Moore, Teaching the Dog not to Nip
"𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧, 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮."
“That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
“I lay myself down in the well of your palm, your life line curving around me, your heart line beating along with my pulse as I roll in your fingers.”
— Peregrine
“So I will lie beside you here unnamed until my hands recover from your skin.”
— John Burnside; De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Patricio Ferrari & Forrest Gander, from The Galloping Hour: French Poems; “Your Lover”
[Text ID: “in his eyelids I sleep until dawn / in his eyes I’ve come to know / a last nakedness / Don’t forget your eyes / because I inhabit them”]
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“My heart aches with desire–”
— Alice Dunbar Nelson, from The Works of Alice Dunbar Nelson; “I Sit and Sew,”
“HIPPOLYTUS : No one burns me, no one fucking touches me. So don’t try.”
— Sarah Kane, Phaedra’s Love (via mythaelogy)
bloodlust for peaches and water melon. figs and cherry tomatoes and crisp tall glass of cold tap water baby i live forever today
