Elizabeth Bishop, From The Selected Poems Of Elizabeth Bishop; "The Burglar Of Babylon,"

I'm so sorry I hurt you.. it feels like swallowing glass every time I think it was never your fault.

love elizabeth s.

It’s never okay to lock a headmate away, never. They could be the worst person in the world, you still shouldn’t lock them away. There’s a difference between keeping headmates away from eachother and taking away someone’s privacy, free will and connections. You are abandoning that headmate, you are telling them that they are not worth helping, that they don’t deserve to get better. If talking it out doesn’t work for them there are other options, I’d recommend giving them their own space to speak their mind without threat of mistreatment for it, for starters. If someone really doesn’t want help don’t force it on them, just let them know it’s always an option and leave it at that. -Ange

idk who needs to hear this right now but I'm going to beat you to death I'm going to hurt you and you're going to die and you suck and I hate you

“Everything is burning, my soul, body, outside, inside, heart, flesh. Do you understand? Do you really understand?”

María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus written c. March 1952

Rebecca Tamás, from Poems; “Witch,” originally published c.  2019

kafka

Do you ever feel like this reality is just not made for you.

Carmen Laforet, from Nada

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