For old times sake is actually such a heartbreaking and beautiful sentiment. Like, let’s do it for the love that used to be here. It is reason enough.

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

Girl, aging girl, is haunted by own nothingness [...]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath ⁠— 26th January 1958

Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,”

"I am alone in my room, between two worlds."

– Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,"

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I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my will-power? The Idea of a life gets in the way of my life.

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath: 1950-1962 (ed. Karen V. Kukil)

I posted this on priv last week but imagine being an eichiP. Falling in love with eichi's story of second chances, getting what you want and regretting your actions in the process, redemption, desperation, overcoming fate and asserting one's self into the story, saving a school in a dying industry that saved your life by giving you a dream, an arc fulfilling to the reader at the end of ! era. And then in !! he becomes an idol colonialist

Anaïs Nin, in a letter to Henry Miller d. Feb. 22, 1932, in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

“Tell them you came and saw and looked into my eyes and watched the shadows of the guard receding.”

How can we be allowed to feel so much for people who don't feel anything for us?

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

[…] all I have ever touched or said to others becomes only the rehearsal for you […]

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath: excerpt from a letter to Richard Sassoon, 22nd November 1955

// always an angel, never a god //

Posca marker on National Geographic magazine fragment, lyrics from 'Not Strong Enough' by Boygenius