they should invent a profound love between two people that doesnt involve the power and chance of doing profound hurt

i think that sometimes the best thing that you can do is remind yourself that there are beaches. lakes, rivers, and ponds. there are forests. little woods and meadows. there are canyons. gullies and mountain cliffs. there are rainy days. dry spells and scorching blue skies. that the world turns. changes as much as it repeats. that feeling slow today won't stop tomorrow's high tide. won't make july's blackberries any less ripe

Rachel Mennies

Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"

i love the part of crime and punishment where raskolnikov is suffering from guilt-induced fever for several reasons but mainly because it occasionally plays out like a black comedy. he is lying there delirious wallowing in psychological hell after having committed a brutal axe murder meanwhile his friends are sitting around constantly going "did you guys hear about the axe murder? yeah crazy shit right"

mihaly zichy ‘romantic encounter’ + these violent delights, micah nemerever 

hidden track

frankenstein - or, the modern prometheus, mary shelley

frankenstein - or, the modern prometheus, mary shelley

from this ask polly

frankenstein - or, the modern prometheus, mary shelley

going insane

frankenstein - or, the modern prometheus, mary shelley

“But why are they so fond of me if I don't deserve it? Oh, if only I were alone and no one loved me and I too had never loved anyone! Nothing of all this would have happened.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “Crime and Punishment.”