“I’ve found a prisoner’s letters to a lover— One begins: “These words may never reach you.” Another ends: “The skin dissolves in dew without your touch.” And I want to answer: I want to live forever. What else can I say? It rains as I write this. Mad heart, be brave.”
— Agha Shahid Ali, The Country Without a Post Office
“Before you find your soul mate, first you must discover your soul.”
— Charles Glassman
the attempted tiktokification of hozier will never not be funny to me because half his songs are about politics and the other half are about wanting to be railed so hard the neighbours complain
“The best way I can love you is by not losing myself in you, but growing with you.”
— Navin E.
“Love me when I am rain, hold me when I am fire.”
— Rune Lazuli
this will not stop, I have decided
“why do you still use tumblr?”
listen— i have to keep track of my hyper fixations somehow
SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE , TIA WILLIAMS .
enduring love
e.m forster, a room with a view / atonement (2007) / thomas hardy, far from the madding crowd / portrait of a lady on fire (2019) / cassandra clare, city of glass / rainer maria rilke / giovanni gasparro / philip pullman, the amber spyglass.
being covered in blood is inherently slut behavior
like you just experienced the most brutal and painful event in your life and now you’re soaked in blood?
ok whore.
“I loved you long before I had the guts to let you know.”
— William Chapman