This Just In

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

— Sylvia Plath

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

Artists need to lay their soul bare for the world to mock

That must be painful

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “The way I was taught to love”

[Text ID: “Half daughter, / half apology, all fire and the wrong kind of love.”]

I look for you everywhere; small gestures made by all kinds of people in the street remind me of you, by their similarity as much as by their differences,

Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice‎

“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

Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente

the idealized version of my tomorrow self will fix this

it’s small joys saturday y’all let’s get it

Alice Notley / Oscar wilde / Sarah Kane / Anne Sexton