Adonis, Tr. By Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

i wish we were two cats so that we could curl up in a lovely friendship ball

“If I were consistent with what I now feel, I should bite my veins out, let them drip in every corner until I run dry.”

— poetry-siir ©

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”

— Kait Rokowski

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth, later, in uglier ways.”

— Sigmund Freud

“I have a list in my head of all the feelings I still want to feel before I die. And you have ticked so many things off that list.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“We all have souls of different ages.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When Morticia Addams said, "Life’s not all lovely thorns and singing vultures, you know," and, "Hearts are wild creatures, that’s why our ribs are cages."

“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.”

— Louis C.K. (via thoughtkick)

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

— John Keats

when Charles Bukowski said "and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?"