Virginia Woolf, From A Letter To Margaret Llewyn Davis, Featured In The Selected Letters Of Virginia

Joy Sullivan, from “At the Airport”, Instructions for Traveling West

a deep connection can’t be formed without emotional safety. without safety, there’s no trust. without trust, there’s no vulnerability. without vulnerability, there’s no intimacy + without intimacy, there’s no true connection.

I’d rather soak myself in loneliness than to be soiled by hands that do not know they are hurting me.

to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you. by A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

— Franz Kafka // Richard Siken

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

— Mitch Albom

I really do love that romantic shit yo

— v, from “excerpt from a book i will never write” (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

— natalie díaz, from “american arithmetic”, postcolonial love poem (via letsbelonelytogetherr)