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you've heard of ghosts as repetitions of memory now get ready for ghosts as the absence of memory
the journey home is an endless one
may sarton “letters from maine” // james baldwin “giovanni’s room” // neil gaiman “the graveyard book” // @wordsnquotes-net // anne carson “men in the off hours” // miriam adeney // “no longer fits” // han kang “the vegetarian” // “garden state” dir. zach braff // richard blanco “mexican almuerzo in new england” // mitski “there’s nothing left here for you” // julian barnes “a history of the world in 10 1/2 hours”
hanya yanagihara, a little life; violet trefusis to vita sackville-west, c. 1910; edna st. vincent millay to arthur davison ficke, 1922; marina tsvetaeva, from earthly signs: moscow diaries, 1917-1922; “excerpts from the book earthly signs;” richard siken, crush and war of the foxes; scenes from black sails (2014 — 2017)
All houses are haunted. Everywhere I’ve ever lived has been haunted
1. Ash, Tracy K Smith 2. Anatomy, Kitty Horrorshow 3. Little talks, Of Monsters and Men 4. Doctor Who 5. Why are you haunted: a survey, Joan Tierney 6. I know the end, Phoebe Bridgers 7. Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film, Barry Curtis 8. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig 9. Things We Say in the Dark, Kirsty Logan 10. Ghosts in the attic
WHERE THE MOON MEETS THE SEA
[ George Seferis // Bannister // Matthew Arnold // post // Alexandros Maragos (Moonrise behind the Temple of Posideon + Waning moon behind a lighthouse) // Emily Dickinson // Ryan Ross // Breese // ST Coleridge // Anne Michaels ]
on love and being haunted
to be haunted - jessie lynn mcmains / haunting of hill house / @catilinas / phoebe bridgers album art / pope alexander - crywank / @martyrdomism / ocean vuong / philip larkin
i can not believe we are 6 months in to 2024.its not even a joke anymore. life is but a blip. someone put me down like a dog
Everything I ever owned has deep scratch marks on it, it's the grief of happy memories that keeps sharpening my nails. I can never let go of things in time, they all collect dust on the shelves of my heart .
@lilyflxwers/hold this - fortesa latifi/@trxuma-system/the good witch - maisie peters/@heavensghost/@archivedsmile/unknown/@lilyflxwers/@therezeegoes/right where you left me - taylor swift
Miss you, darling. Miss you so much. I hurt you so much when I was hurting, and it was the same from you to me. I hope you're doing well and I hope you don't ever get near me. I'm sorry for resenting you
i love this website because i could say something like richard siken said you’re in the car with a beautiful boy and he won’t tell you but he loves you that virginia woolf wrote yes yes yes i do like you. i am afraid to write the stronger word. and that love has always felt like this and you’re not broken
you can’t outrun grief no matter how hard you try you can’t outrun grief no matter how hard you try you can’t outrun grief no matter how hard you try you can’t outrun grief no matter how hard you try you can’t outrun grief no matter how hard you try you can’t outrun grief no matter how hard you try
when sylvia plath said, “i need a father, i need a mother, i need some older wiser being to talk to. i talk to god but the sky is empty.” and when oscar wilde said, “a burnt child loves the fire.” and when frank bidart said, “memory is punishment.” and when
I'm the one who ruined me: I did it myself
No Longer Human // Ask Polly: Help, I'm The Loneliest Person In The World! // Franz Kafka // Sue Zhao // Fingertips - Fortesa Latifi // Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky // Juansen Dizon // The Garden of Eden - Ernest Hemingway // On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
"I can't really feel happy without grief whispering over my shoulder"
I HOPE LOVING ME ISN’T THE HARDEST THING ANYONE HAS TO DO.
jenny slate // bernhard schlink // unknown // heather havrilesky // sue zhao // i.b. vyache // fatima aamer bilal // anne carson // bylthe baird // alice notley // jody chan // georges bataille // frank o'hara // emily palermo
tender love
thomas merton // “eurydice” sarah ruhl // ernest hemingway // anis mojgani “in the pockets of small gods” // lemony snicket // franz kafka “the castle” // @fridayiminlovemp3 (mitski “strawberry blonde”) // mitski “pink in the night” // khalil gibran // gustave flaubert from a letter to george sand, 1876 // danez smith “acknowledgments” // “love freely” E.C. @desultory-suggestions
megan nolan / fernando amorsolo / chelsea g. summers / saria dy / virginia woolf / jan davidsz. de heem / @littlewomenatelier / joy harjo / eat drink man woman / anthony bourdain
For somebody i thought was my savior, you sure make do a whole lot of labour.
Labour, Paris Paloma
Like Him - Tyler, The Creator
Jeremy Allen White, Vulture interview // Sarah Kay, Hand me downs
I’m tired of you, still tied to me// Hard Times, Ethel Cain
Richard Siken, The Worm Kings Lullaby// Jenny Slate, Little Weirds// Sleeping at last, Already Gone
I just think that they were never meant to work out regardless of whether Sydcarmy happens or not
Thinking about them today
Invisible String, Taylor Swift
“As long is there is love, there will be grief”- Heidi Priebe