“Tell Me, How Does It Feel With My Teeth In Your Heart?”

“Vanity is the fear of appearing original.”

—Daybreak, §365 (excerpt).

“I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, ‘I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.’”

— Marian Keyes (via herpaperweight)

September 22. Nothing.

Franz Kafka - Diaries 1914-1923 (Allegedly)

Marguerite Duras, from The Lover

Text ID: to devour and be devoured,

“She believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she remained calm as the days flew by.”

— Gyula Krúdy (via lareinedefer)

“Everybody knows that really intimate conversation can only take place between two or three. Even if there are only six or seven present, collective language begins to dominate.”

— Simone Weil, Waiting on God

Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.”

“She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (via drearydoll)

Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda.”

Alex Dimitrov, from "Love", Love and Other Poems