Vespertine 💕

Fuel for next paper

Crying

when georges bataille wrote, “no greater desire exists than a wounded person’s need for another wound” & when gillian flynn wrote, “a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort” & when ocean vuong wrote, “sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined” & when lisa m. basile wrote, “did you inherit a sickness? did you blame god? do you believe in god? do you believe in yourself? are you still on fire? did you ever put out the fire?” & when stephen a. guirgis wrote, “why didn't you make me good enough so that you could’ve loved me?”

don't look at me with those brown eyes or I might just spend the rest of my life keeping your hands warm

How?

Alpine ibex taking a chimney-top break in the French Alps, 2019 - by Sandro Lovari, Italian

Jihyun Yun, from Some Are Always Hungry; “Reversal”

[Text ID: “I so want to survive this. Please lead me whole into another season so I may dare begin again.”]

i hope im not only a mutual to u but also someone u can refer to in conversation as ur friend from overseas so u appear worldly and well-traveled

Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"

Kinda been into podcast lately. Keeping it together.

Details, part III: “Arabesque” series, contemporary. Painter: Daniel Abel.