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thinking abt when someone rests their head on your shoulder and suddenly you’re barely breathing because you don’t want to disrupt their comfort by moving. will never get over how there can be so much love held in silent gestures.
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-- "if I'm being fully honest, after what happened... This feels like starting all over again... It's like I don't truly know you anymore and now I have to learn who you really are..."
-+ "well, then that's perfect. I could just take you on as many dates as it takes for you to get to know me and fall in love with me again"
Excepts of a conversation of a post-heartbreak couple staying together, 2022.
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I would like to tell you more stories
But I've got to get home
-Olga Tolstoy, 2027
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‘sappho’ - charles auguste mengin (1877)
ransacked to the waist, hounded under gales. of black hair, eyes burdened with longing, you are left behind, the lyre in your hand. fretted with the chords of the sea. - andrew miller
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"nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was always just red."
Kait Rokowski
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other people’s love letters
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maybe this poetry book will fix me
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“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” - Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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When Jane Austen said, "And sometimes I keep my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in," I felt that
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i don’t think we can romanticize our way out of this one boys
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"There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always the wounded people holding it together. They deserve some genuine and heartfelt admiration for that."
-J. B. P. (2018)
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Sometimes, witnessing others' willful living is enough to keep moving forward.
Mine.
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Love heals. Ambition saves.
Unknown.
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