it’s just me and my four hundred unread books against the world i guess
“Life was easy with you and it came so naturally. You were the extension of me and I would never need to finish my words, as who knew me better than you? You knew your place which was by my side. It is the little things that make the person and you would easily have kept me going for a lifetime. The way you would look at me with fire in your eyes showed me that I was the only one for you. You stole my heart and hid it away.”
— from Al Mujahid's letter to his wife
“I don’t know why the memories grow while I shrink. I don’t remember what I wanted to say. I don’t want to say what I remember.”
— Dunya Mikhail, from ‘Buzz’, The War Works Hard (trans. Elizabeth Winslow)
|Life in the forest|
— Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
“There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
if not, winter by sappho // ampio orizzonte by ettore tito // lesbos by sylvia plath
“I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Sometimes the long way is the only way home.”
— Unknown
what do you mean i can't spend all day listening to music and reading old conspiracy theories whilst ignoring any human interaction? bitch leave me alone tf
“ You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
– Oscar Wilde