“Hey, stop crying. I’ll take care of you, Stevie. Always.”
Even when I had nothing, I had Bucky. I don’t think I could’ve done it without him.
“I could only think of you as being very distant and beautiful and calm. A lighthouse in clean waters.”
— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West c. January 1927
i love that short guy from seinfeld you all post all the time he has so much to say
some of y’all never close your eyes in the sun and allow it to envelop you in feelings of peace and contentment and it shows
normalize being in your 20's without a drivers license. normalize being in your 60's without a drivers license. normalize never ever getting your license. death to automobiles peace and love on planet earth
Insist on believing that good will prevail; that the work will get done; that there will again be love. We have to want to get up in the morning for the good mornings to arrive.
- Tennessee Williams, in Follies of God, June 29, 2023 (via Alive on All Channels)
they should invent a life that is liveable and a sleep that comes easy and a winter that doesn't feel like decay and a spring that doesn't feel like the past and a head that doesn't hurt and a heart that doesn't sit in your chest like a rock and a body that doesn't hate you and a hometown that doesn't make you lose your mind and a university that won't kill you they should invent a me that is normal I think that would be really neat. ok good night I love you
i dont care (this affected me deeply and made me cry for several hours)
I just wanna be loved, respected and taken care of, I’m so tired my heart is so tired
no offense but i just…. want silence everything is too loud and too much
“I have dreamed of you so often, you are no longer real.”
— Dean Young, from “Robert Desnos (1900-1945),” in Bender: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2012)
trying to be full of love and kindness no matter how much people hurt me
“I feel the distance between myself and others. I guard that distance.”
— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953 (via liebesfraulein)