Julia Armfield, from Salt Slow; “Cassandra After”
[Text ID: “she was a gentle sort of horror;”]
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What will you do with your youth,
It wants to know, once you are safe
And free?
— Stephanie Burt, from "Kurt Wagner’s Song," We Are Mermaids
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Marion Ash, an employee at the Wall Court Floral Library in Corfe Castle, Dorset, at work in the drying room, 1 October 1963, John Drysdale/Keystone Features/Getty Images ..
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“To sit alone or with a few friends, half-drunk under a full moon, you just understand how lucky you are; it’s a story you can’t tell. It’s a story you almost by definition, can’t share. I’ve learned in real time to look at those things and realize: I just had a really good moment.”
— Anthony Bourdain, in his final interview
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Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse
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— You, Darkness by Rainer Maria Rilke
[text ID: I have faith in nights.]
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alexandra yanul
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Sometimes it feels like this world isn't enough for me
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— Jean Rhys
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I just feel so alone in this world
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“Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide.”
— C.S. Lewis
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“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
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the feminine urge to hold a gun
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