“Are you aware that the word “passion” means “suffering”?”
— Victor Hugo, from a letter to Adèle Foucher written c. March 1822
body parts that need regular moisturising are literally so fucking stupid like. my brother in christ we’re 60% water
It's gonna work out. It's gonna work out. It's gonna work out.
they need to make an app for the mentally ill …
“I am tired of being human,”
— Mary Szybist, from Granted: Poems; “In Tennessee I Found a Firefly,”
(via violentwavesofemotion)
no phone i did not “miss a call” i watched it ring the whole time
“But then it passed, as all things do.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
i post for the girls who were lonely and isolated during peak social developmental years
Childhood made everything feel like it lingered. The time it took for hot chocolate to cool down was eternal. Christmas day took weeks. The two-hour drive to my grandparents' house took us to a new world. It's all too fast now.
“I understood the true fate of Orpheus, that love is a constant terror of loss.”
—
Kazimierz Wierzyński, tr. by Czeslaw Milosz, “A Word of Orphists,”
(via violentwavesofemotion)
cracking open a cold one with the boys except it’s a pomegranate




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