There Is No Other Version Of This Story.

Kaveh Akbar, from “Despite My Efforts Even My Prayers Have Turned into Threats“

“In the evening my griefs come to me one by one. They tell me what I had hoped to forget. They perch on my shoulders like mourning doves. They are the color of light fading.”

— Linda Pastan, from “Old Woman,” The Five Stages of Grief ( W. W. Norton & Company, 1978)

“(…) no one wants a half-remembered tragedy. You must know the width of the knife and how it ruined you, name the organs it kissed.”

— Life of the Party, ‘Addendum II to No Baptism’ by Olivia Gatwood (via decreation)

1. Meg Day 2. Haruki Murakami 3. Edouard Labrosse 4. Rainer Maria Rilke 5. Ron Hicks 6. Virginia Woolf 7. Joan Didion 8. Ron Hicks 9. Sylvia Plath 10. Anne Magill 11. Franz Kafka 12. Peter Wever 13. Vi Khi Nao 14. Peter Wever 15. Anna Akhmatova

                                   Everyone is a monster to someone.                             Since you are so convinced that I am yours,                                                       I will be it.

       sinners | lauren aquilina

“We are all the dead. I am not apart from you for long, except for breath, except for everything.”

— Forgotten Portraits by Janine Solursh (via decreation)

“Tell me, in storms, that you love me.”

— Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth; “That You Love Me,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Mary Oliver, from “A River Far Away and Long Ago”, Red Bird

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”

— John Banville, The Sea (via wordsnquotes)