agonistes

stay-close:

I understand your grief; even time does not always heal this kind of pain.

— Frédéric Chopin, from a letter to Auguste Franchomme wr. c. August 1848

(via l-amouur)

fairydrowning:

“I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break.”

-Marya Hornbacher, Wasted

typewriter-worries:

let me be lonely, but not invisible

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feral-ballad:

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Theories about the universe”

[Text ID: “When I want something / with my whole being, and the universe withholds it / from me, I hope the universe thinks to herself, / Silly girl. She thinks this is what she wants, / but she does not understand how it will hurt.”]

fairydrowning:

-Amy M. Homes, “This Book Will Save Your Life”

[TEXT ID: “I don’t know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?” END ID]

feral-ballad:

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Eat”

[Text ID: “I am trying to stop doing / things that don’t make any sense. Body, / forgive me. I am trying. I am trying. I am still trying.]

feral-ballad:

Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Concerns from a hot-boxed jeep”

[Text ID: “How do I stop / carrying everything / that had ever / happened to me?”]

metamorphesque:

 — Road Music, Richard Siken

[text ID: There should be /  just one safe place / in the world, I mean this world. People get hurt here. / People fall down and stay down]

metamorphesque:

  ― Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Love Sonnets

[text ID: I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, / in secret, between the shadow and the soul.]