AUGUST: THE TRUE ENDING OF A YEAR

From The Art of Loving and Losing Female Friends by Rachel Vorona Cote

My grandmother told me a story of how after her mother died she had a dream where she was walking through water and her mother told her that she has to leave her behind. She told me she didn't need anyone to interpret it, but she knew that it really was her mother speaking to her.

Funeral, Phoebe Bridgers/La Lune, Jacques Prévert/Dream States, Henrik Uldalen/The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Helen More/Leviton 3, Quang Ho/Some British Ballads, Arthur Rackham/Hamlet, William Shakespeare

harry styles for rolling stone magazine / matty healy for dazed magazine 

Love™️ cont.

— Devil in Spring by Lisa Kleypas

“I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness” —“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” by Tennessee Williams

—“Poor Little Rich Boy” by Regina Spektor

“Kaling being a total boss lady seems to only make him love her more. An audience member asks if he is going to marry her, to which after only a slight pause he says, “I don’t know.”” —B.J. Novak about Mindy Kaling

“Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.” —The First Bad Man by Miranda July

“But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.” — A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

“She still loves him. This is the fact she wakes up to each morning. She checks it, sometimes, a tongue probing an aching tooth, making sure it still hurts.” —Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

—“State of Grace” by Taylor Swift

“I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.” — De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

“My love for you is more/athletic than a verb,/agile as a star” — Sylvia Plath

“I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you. And Peter does. He sees me, and I see him.” ― To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han 

― Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke’s Heart by Sarah MacLean

“The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals then…”

“the mermaids” - marianne boruch // “hylas and the nymphs” - john william waterhouse // “the love song of j. alfred prufrock” - t.s. eliot // “a mermaid” - john william waterhouse // “the siren” john william waterhouse // moby-dick - herman melville // “the knight and the mermaid” - isobel lilian gloag // “the land baby” - john collier // “lamia” - john keats // of “hylas and the water nymphs” - henrietta rae // peter pan // j.m. barrie

being a woman is thinking ur the ugliest person ever and then coming across a photo of u as a kid when u had already started to hate ur appearance and realizing u were so cute and then u do this every so often for the rest of ur life and u never learn

Jazmine Hughes

the love club, lorde | sharp objects, gillian flynn | lady bird dir. greta gerwig | class of 2013, mitski | white oleander, janet french | girl in progress dir. patricia riggen | writer in the dark, lorde | little fires everywhere, celeste ng | electrick children dir. rebecca thomas | mythological beauty, big thief

the female killer in hollywood: a mini essay by silas denver melvin