i got cursed like Eve got bitten

“There is only one question: how to love this world.”

— Mary Oliver, from House of Light; “Spring” (via bellsofatlantis)

"You can decorate absence however you want, but you're still gonna feel what's missing."

- Siobhan Vivian

“I believe that much unseen is also here.”

— Walt Whitman, excerpt from “Song of the Open Road” + (via mythologyofblue)

“Sometimes when one wakes up in the morning one thinks that truth is right next to the bed, like an open grave with a few wilted flowers, ready to receive.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits (translated by Magda Bogin)

Taylor Swift - The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”

— T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

— Dorothy Bussy (neé Strachey), from Olivia.

Mary Oliver, “Don't Hesitate.” Devotions

loml - taylor swift

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer, featured in "Letters to Felice,"

when you feel bone deep sentiments towards a person vs their feelings being just on the surface level. like that shit HURTS

“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”

— Sylvia Plath, from “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.”

“I have broken every rule I ever set for myself. And now I am busy, so busy, day and night, ruining my life.”

— Catherine Lacey, from Biography of X

Simone Weil on projection and how to lose your object with grace. From “Void and Compensation”

Fernando Pessoa from The Book of Disquiet (1982)