[text ID: so it’s summer, so it’s suicide, so we’re helpless in sleep and struggling at the bottom of the pool /end ID]
don't let my tits distract u from the fact that i'm not ok in the head
After that night, Allie and Noah spent every waking hour together. And soon, they were inseparable.
THE NOTEBOOK (2004) dir. Nick Cassavetes
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, from “Baked Goods”, Lucky Fish (published in 2011)
So why did I feel so dark inside--and like maybe I was kind of disappearing a little bit?
Matthew Quick, from We Are the Light (Avid Reader Press, 2022)
“She felt a nausea of the soul, a hideous and sickening despair, a melancholy weariness so profound that she was going to die of it. Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth.”
— Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife
When I held him, all I could hear was my own heart beating. 春光乍洩 Happy Together (1997) dir. Wong Kar Wai