marlena by julie buntin
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in "a passionate apprentice"
They burned the bridge, then ask why I don’t visit.
Ugo Eze
Sanna Wani, “Who is the Sun, Asking for Sleep?”, My Grief, the Sun // Brenna Twohy, A Coworker Asks Me If I Am Sad, Still
I thought I had been surviving, and yet, what I was really doing was hanging by a string, loosely holding myself from collapsing. I was always on the verge, and I could feel that friction in my soul.
Fariha Róisín, from Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
[That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.]
Franz Kafka, the metamorphosis / Jane Austen
Bao Phi, Thousand Star Hotel
I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.
-Sylvia Plath
{ quotes and paintings @rbcages /Silas Melvin, from "Twenty," Grit/Franz Kafka/ from series end of fucking world on Netflix /Anne sexton a self portrait in letters/Sylvia path/Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit/ R.arnold.}
اشرب قهوتك، واعتنق الصمت، ولا تأخذ الناس على محمل الجد.. لا تأخذ الحياة على عاتقك، ولا تبالغ في عاطفتك، ولا ترضي أحدًا رغمًا عنك.
Drink your coffee, embrace the silence, do not take people seriously, do not take life upon yourself, do not exaggerate your emotions, and do not please anyone against your will.
-Mahmoud Darwish
