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— natalie díaz, from “american arithmetic”, postcolonial love poem (via letsbelonelytogetherr)
— unknown (via letsbelonelytogetherr)
16 April, 1939 Letters to Véra by Vladimir Nabokov
— Clementine Von Radics, from In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive; "The Fear" (via lunamonchtuna)
— Danez Smith, from "summer, somewhere" (via lunamonchtuna)
Craving this right now.....
— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera
coco mellors, cleopatra and frankenstein.
Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from The Selected Works; “Memoirs of Martynov,”
Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
L.M. Montgomery
Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a diary entry featured in Rapture & Melancholy; The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
Suzanne Scanlon, from "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen," published in 2024
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in "A Writer's Diary," originally pub. in January 1953
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
Virginia Woolf
Clarice Lispector, from "Too Much of Life Complete Chronicles," publ. in 2022
Maybe, we shouldn't do this, however, I have a volcano of desires burning within me...
My nightmares are usually about losing you. I’m okay once I realize you’re here.
Suzanne Collins
My nightmares are usually about losing you. I’m okay once I realize you’re here.
Suzanne Collins
I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.
Stephen Chbosky
I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.
Sarah Addison Allen
Life is short, right? We both know that. Well, what if you’re my chance? What if you are the thing that’s actually going to make me happiest?
Jojo Moyes
Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen.
Jonathan Lethem