Who Up Feeling Like An Open Wound That Will Never Heal

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

Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”  

— David Foster Wallace

Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Mrs. Maria Clemm, July 1849

Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “The first line is the deepest”

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters

Why try to fit in when I can become the most offputting and haunted individual in the family bloodline.

[i want you to tell me i might never recover]

— Jay Vespertine (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay