Noriko Ibaragi, from 101 Modern Japanese Poems; "When I Was At my Prettiest,"
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How do you know any of this will be here after you blink? It's gonna just slip right through your fingers
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“Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character. It only hurts.”
— Kate Jacobs; Comfort Food
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“I am both worse and better than you thought.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
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“I am both worse and better than you thought.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
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V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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“but we joke and laugh otherwise we would start screaming.”
— Charles Bukowski
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Road to ruin, Claudia Keep
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Not often,
but now and again there’s a moment
when the heart cries aloud:
yes, I am willing to be
that wild darkness,
that long, blue body of light.
Mary Oliver, from "Whelks"
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violently screaming isn’t enough i need a gun
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Federico García Lorca, from "3 Tragedies; Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alta,"
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