Letters To Milena // Franz Kafka

“Oh, darling….You will be good to me, won’t you?…You will, won’t you?…Because we’re going to have a strange life.”

— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms  

borrowed time

I’m walking up against the wind, this is indeed my borrowed time

the cuffs, the lattice the burning furnace the thorny glade the wired wall

magnitude of malevolence, one tired hand upon another cutting into this air slithering through inadvertently

egress, the high transom window and sight of sunshine

…

I’m walking with the wind now, this is no longer borrowed time

the hatchery the abundant cloud the river, the highway the umbilical love

relevance of release into the transformation, the perpetual firelight the significant ease the expanding awareness

all flight, free as feathers

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”

— Franz Kafka (via writingdotcoffee)

"You can romanticize me all you wish, but the devil wrapped in silk is still the devil."

A Word to my Lovers

— The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

““If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” - Anna Quindlen”

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𝙳𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟷𝟼, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

I can read a 500 page book or 100k word fanfiction in one sitting, but the moment I have to do a required reading for uni I suddenly don't know how to read

“The bravest thing you can ever do, is to stay kind and soft even when the world has been cruel to you.”

— Nikita Gill