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𝑏𝑢𝑏𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 <3

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as each year goes by I feel more and more lost and also more and more like myself

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“My body was coated in salt and ocean foam. I felt like I was part of the rock and part of the ocean, and I wondered if this was how Sappho felt, even in her deepest desperation”

— Melissa Broder, from The Pisces

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“(…) a love that is lost is a ghost unlaid That troubles the silent night.”

— Francis William Bourdillon, from A Ghost in “Poems Bewitched And Haunted” [selected and edited by John Hollander]

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“And now I am going to lie down and dream of you, the most beautiful dream a person can have. I hug you lovingly, kiss you many times …”

— Marie Bader (1886-1942), in a letter to Ernst Löwy (1880-1943) Karlín, 25/6/1941 in: “Life and Love in Nazi Prague. Letters from an Occupied City. Marie Bader”, translated by Kate Ottevange

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“She is the song of forever that is composed of summer rain and midnight stars.”

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— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to Arthur Davison Ficke featured in Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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Who was she? Conflicted, Too simple for the world, too complex for her own self, unable to decide where she belonged?

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I envy people who can see lana performing.

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- j (x), tears, tears, tears

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shorty will forever say “i got this” even when she streesin and got tears in her eyes

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Jane Austen was right when she said “I am half agony, half hope.”

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I miss him, but I miss myself more.

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D. H. Lawrence, from Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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This world killed me.

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sometimes i be killing my own vibe by thinking too much