Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Jeanette Winterson // Later: My Life At The Edge Of The World,

seafoam 🌊

wallpaper set  //  prints

a prayer

Les Félins (René Clément), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai), Malcolm T. Liepke, Gustav Vigeland (Eros and Psyche), Stephan Sinding (Adoration), Soul Eom (kiss, hug and die)

flowery tea ♡

“I was afraid of love, of being taken away. Everyone afraid of love is afraid of death.”

— Louise Glück, “Timor Mortis” from Vita Nova

Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me

Marguerite Duras, from The Lover

Text ID: I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I’ve always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I’ve always had, I could almost call it by my own name, it’s so like me.

“A nymph came pirouetting, under white Rotating petals, in a vernal rite To kneel before an altar in a wood Where various articles of toilette stood.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (via starpleiades)

self sabotage

have been fundamentally changed as a person (<- read a good book)

“They said that it takes one to know one. The reason I can point out a person’s evil nature is because I have that same evil nature within me.”

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Dazai Osamu, “A New Hamlet”