[ID: A page of a play. It reads as follows, "Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. / Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. / Theseus: Stain them, I don't care." End text.]

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

...your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

Letters to a Young Poet | Rainer Maria Rilke

Preface to Grief Lessons by Euripides, translated by Anne Carson.

"how strange, but how lovely, to have a favourite book that is so full of unread stories."

fateheart: a starless seaquel - boogleboot

“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?” - Hanya Yanagihara

This story.. was absolutely beautiful in so many heart breaking ways.

I look at you while you're cooking. Hair tied up. A rogue hair strand of your hair falls in your eyes. You laugh and look at me asking me to get it off your face. I fix your hair and try to fight this feeling. I want to hug you from the back. Hold you as you're making dinner. And rest my head on your shoulder. "Why are you looking at me like that?" You ask. "I just zoned out" I reply and you shrug. Oh my love how can you not know how beautiful you are?

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

Anaïs Nin

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MY GOODREADS <33

Nietzsche | Dostoyevsky

(via violentwavesofemotion)

Sonder

(n.) The realisation that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as yours.

Their feelings were suppressed so carefully in everyday life, forced into smaller spaces, until seemingly minor events took on insane and frightening significance.

Normal People | Sally Rooney

“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”

- Virginia Woolf

[Photo taken by me]

[Camera - Nikon D7500]

“I know my life's meaningful because" - and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued - " because I'm a good friend. I love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy.”

― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life