in my restless dreams.. 19 y/o
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My body is already an inhospitable environment, there’s no way a friggin baby would be able to survive in it
stop trying to make intimacy casual. intimacy will never be casual.
Sylvia Plath, from a letter featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. 1: 1940-1956
GIRL NO YOU’RE MOURNING SOMETHING THAT HASN’T EVEN HAPPENED YET AGAIN!!!!!!
landscape with a blur of conquerors, richard siken
Be Near Me, Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from “Reborn”, Sin
Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from “Psychopathology Ward”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972
you can only reblog this today
Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012
anne sexton
“I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference. Also it is a very private feeling I have - that of melting into a perpetual nervous breakdown. I am often questioning myself what I further want to do, who I further wish to be; which parts of me, exactly, are still functioning properly. No answers, darling. At all.”
— Anne Sexton
Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary
does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver
Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me
hey sorry it's just that i don't think i'm very good at being a person. thanks for letting me try with you, anyway.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re at a low point:
If you were a fictional man right now, there would be *at least* ten people if not a large portion of the fanbase that would call you their wet beast poor little meow meow
Albert Camus, letters to María Casares.
things that are scary that you just have to get over at some point
being wrong (as distinct from)
other people having different opinions from you (as distinct from)
minor disagreements
the eternal uncertainty caused by living in a universe where luck exists (e.g. Just Anything could happen to you for no reason)
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i've had this list open for so long but i can't think of anything else
i sorta feel like most other fears are kind of fine to have
oh like spiders i guess
i deal so incredibly well with change!!! my natural reaction to it is just so positive!!!! i really take it in stride!!! i don't even give myself migraines and gastrointestinal issues and night terrors!!!!
On Friendship.
“Please stop destroying what is left of your heart by constantly thinking about things that have broken you.”
— Unknown
are you hungry? (medea, alone)
Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
i cannot hate myself into a version of me i will love.
Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma