Latest Posts by unstableflames - Page 3

— wolkenleere, excerpt of a book I’ll never write

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

— Jay Vespertine (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

Ernest Hemingway, from his novel titled "A Farewell To Arms," originally publ. in 1929

D.M. Aderibigbe, from “Letter from My Father, Odysseus”

Suzanne Scanlon, from "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen," published in 2024

who up feeling like an open wound that will never heal

“If anyone had opened his arms to me, I would have wept like a child.”

— Albert Camus, Death in the Soul

Guilt over being alive

Yohji Yamamoto - Talking to Myself // Richard Siken - Little Beast // xxxxxxxxxxx // Claudia Rankine - Don't Let Me Be Lonely // John Green - Turtles All The Way Down

Anne Carson, from Grief lessons: Four plays by Euripides.

Elizabeth Bishop, from The Selected Poems of Elizabeth Bishop; "The Burglar of Babylon,"

[...] I’m so pathetically intense. I just can’t be any other way.

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I: 1940 - 1956 — Edward Cohen, c. 11th September 1950

we diagnose you with a creeping sense of alienation forever. incurable

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from Rien ne va plus

[Text ID: “—Every time I want to write, I want to write love stories. But as soon as I pick up the pen I’m overcome by horror.”]

-Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975

phrasing of this is taking me out

my daily habit of continuing on

The intimacy of “How did you know that?”

“because I know you.”

Everyday I’m learning that you just have to keep going, cry a little bit, but keep going.

love elizabeth s.

Silent Hill (1999)

— David Foster Wallace

you belong to me. don’t forget that.

Ptolemaea - Ethel Cain

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

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

Carmen Laforet, from Nada

Text ID: savage tenderness

“You can romanticize me all you wish, but the devil wrapped in silk is still the devil.”

— A Word To My Lovers