“I used to be able to cry but now I am beyond tears.”
— Sarah Kane, from 4.48 Psychosis

“I used to be able to cry but now I am beyond tears.”
— Sarah Kane, from 4.48 Psychosis
juana de ibarbourou, the strong bond (translated by linda scheer)
AMMONITE (2020) dir. Francis Lee.
Virginia Woolf, from a diary featured in “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume II,”
“…but beautiful places are often melancholy and very lonely.”
— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Passionate Apprentice,”
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth, later, in uglier ways.”
— Sigmund Freud
Postcolonial Love Poem, ‘Wolf OR-7′ by Natalie Diaz
[ID: I confuse instinct for desire - isn’t bite also touch?]
Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Trans. by Anne Carson)
“Is there no way out of the mind?”
— Sylvia Plath
“I’m abandoning everything! everything! and that way I won’t be abandoned—”
— Clarice Lispector, from “The Departure of the Train”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)
“I want to be eaten alive. I want / to feel wanted.”
— Elisabeth Hewer, from “Wanting,” Wishing for Birds
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb
“They may have broken your heart but some part of you knows that if they ever came back, you wouldn’t hesitate for even one second.”
—
and the worst thing is knowing that you don’t mean as much to people as they do to you. you can see it in their eyes when you look into them, you don’t fill up their life as they do to you. you don’t make their world spin, or the air leave their lungs. they may love you, and i bet they do. but maybe not enough. not enough to keep you. not enough to chose you. not enough to stay.
suddenly you leaving me has become my biggest fear// 4am