“Everything is change, he said, and everything is connected. Also everything returns, but what returns is not what went away.”
— Louise Gluck, from “Denial of Death” featured in Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems
"Oh, you're crying?! You're fucking crying, you fucking bitch? You're the one who's hurt? You're the most self-centered, idiotic person I have ever fucking met... You fuck my ex, and you're fucking crying?! Are you fucking kidding me?!". ⸺Maddy Pérez.
“Many things interested her, and nothing satisfied her entirely.”
— Ivan Turgenev
you remind me of sunsets and stars and moonlight
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“Persephone’s beauty was barbarous, it resembled flaming crimson roses.”
— Lola Ridge, from To the Many; Collected Poems of Lola Ridge; “Hellish,”
God we love a good milky pink nail color don’t we babes
“Melancholia and the Moon ~ two creatures of the same womb.”
— Helaena C Moon @ http://hapless-hollow.tumblr.com/ (via hapless-hollow)
“Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.”
— Lao Tzu, Verse 66
Asako Eguchi
“Falling in love with a God is not a death sentence. The story is only a tragedy if the God loves you back.”
— Nathaniel Orion G. K.
Christina Rossetti, from Poems and Prose; “Maiden-Song”