“All roads lead to you... even those I took to forget you.”
- Mahmoud Darwish

- Mahmoud Darwish
— Mahmoud Darwish
— Franz Kafka
Frida Kahlo, from a letter written in 1934, featured in "The Letters of Frida Kahlo,"
March 1, 1928 The early diary of Anaïs Nin, 1903-1977
Khalil Gibran
- Naya Aknis
they asked, "do you love her to death? "
I said, "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life."
-Mahmoud Darwish
someone has to leave first. this is a very old story. there is no other version of it.
rien ne va plus - margarita karapanou / ghost, zero, suitcase, and the moon - richard siken, beginners (2010) dir. mike mills, glue - richard siken, beginners (2010) dir. mike mills, the absolutely true story of a part-time indian - sherman alexie, tumblr user lalallorona, fuck it i love you - lana del rey, the worm king’s lullaby - richard siken
on being left
drift, alek olsen / cheryl strayed / u.k / u.k / trista mateer / rebecca malakai / u.k / marya hornbacher / jan heller levi
LEFT.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in "Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends,"
Anaïs Nin, from The Voice
𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭...
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
― Li Young-Lee, A Story
"Close your eyes", Paruyr Sevak (translated by metamorphesque)
𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟷𝟹, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹
[ID: February 13. The possibility of serving with all one’s heart. END ID]
mother, you were right- i do damage. for the sake of all the damage that’s been done to me.
[fatima aamer bilal, excerpts from days where my whole world is my bed / coffin heart? bury me. / all hunger is, is love. / shame is a girl’s second skin / i mother it, the absence of her, iii. i am not a person that can be loved for a very long time.]
I HAVE MY MOTHER'S FACE AND HER GRIEF
Janet Fitch // Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig // Chen Chen // Youadan Teddy // Ocean Vuong Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong // Mitski Class of 2013 // 誰も知らない Nobody Knows (2004) dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda // Fatima Aamer Bilal days where my whole world is my bed. // death-born-aphrodite (tumblr) // Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // Hieu Minh Nguyen Buffet Etiquette