#selections

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

[sunshinesere]

Ottessa Moshfegh / Eileen

[2x55]

𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑓, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑥ℎ𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑒𝑛'𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡.

—𝐴𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑜 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑧𝑜𝑛𝑖 (𝟷𝟽𝟾𝟻-𝟷𝟾����𝟹)'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠𝘩𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝟷𝟾𝟸𝟽

[feral-ballad]

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

[secretsiwhispertothemoon]

Frida Kahlo, from a letter wr. c. November 1933, featured in The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas

[maryqos]

coco mellors, cleopatra and frankenstein.

[wordedarchive]

It was April and she was the saddest thing under the sun.

Khush Bakht via wordedarchive

[fairydrowning]

"People empty me. I have to get away to refill."

– Charles Bukowski

[syringavulgaris]

Mary Soon Lee, from Elemental Haiku: Poems to Honor the Periodic Table, Three Lines at a Time

[soulsunpoets]

[grieving]

[heartssarrow]

- Adélia Prado - Serenade (translated by Waston)

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

[sunshinesere]

Emily Henry / People We Meet On Vacation

[thepathetickind]

feel drained no matter how much I sleep

by laurenmaerie, tired thoughts

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You Were”