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Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems; “Song for a Red Nightgown”

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“I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.”

— Henry Rollins

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Masks of Leatherface

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“My mouth hasn’t shut up about you since you kissed it. The idea that you may kiss it again is stuck in my brain, which hasn’t stopped thinking about you since well before any kiss.”

— Alex Turner (via quotemadness)

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I've seen all of us die.

It consumes us from the inside until we don't have a choice anymore.

The ones who die all violent deaths stay in the tortured realm and so violence is all they know.

It Chapter 2 // The Thirteen Ghosts

Addition: Greta and Henry

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How should I know if you're okay? How could I help you if you're hurt? How would I love you if you're not?

- hollowmoments

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You see I am still alive but horribly fed-up. It is not within the compass of any language to express to you how fed-up I am. But really this life is brutish & tries my patience almost beyond endurance.

H.D., from a letter to Amy Lowell written c. August 1919 (via writemeanna)

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“And take care of yourself, and be happy, but don’t forget how big the world is.”

— Martha Gellhorn

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“Two souls are sometimes created together and in love before they’re even born.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald / The Beautiful and Damned

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“I’m so lonely in the world I want to peel all of my flesh off and walk, just bone and gristle, straight into the river, to be swallowed, just like my father.”

— Kathleen Glasgow, from Girl in Pieces (via schwanendreher)

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Help - the front bottoms

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Lawerence Alma-Tadema, The Favorite Poet (1888) / Sappho, fragments 

sappho + art | society6

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Anne Carson

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