nothing about this
is soft
but we pretend.— Cara Neel, from “Bukowski,” published in Vagabond City
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“I’m always in a state of trance, I’m not very often in the real world.”— Emma Hewitt (via eliseeatydendivu)
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I love how the romantics were unable to tell if they were feverish or experiencing an (1) emotion.
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“I think you lost all interest in this world. You were disappointed and discouraged, and lost interest in everything. So you abandoned your physical body. You went to a world apart and you’re living a different kind of life there. In a world inside you.”— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
“Stop thinking that other people are going to come and save you. You gotta save yourself.”— Rae Earl
An excerpt from the song ‘Pleaser’ by Wallows
“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”— Sylvia Plath
—On Love, Marina Tsvetaeva
[text ID: I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.]
“This year will take from me the hardened person who I longed to be. I am healing by mistake. Rome is also built on ruins.”— “Ruins” by Eliza Griswold
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“I want to be eaten alive. I want / to feel wanted.”— Elisabeth Hewer, from “Wanting,” Wishing for Birds (via lifeinpoetry)
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