The Pittsburgh Press, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1941
Etikett: about astrid
I took a test on like where you are on the ‘nonverbal intimacy scale’ and the average female score is 102 and male is 93.8 and I got 56 lolololol
here it is if ya want (reblog/reply w/ what you get!!)
I am weak, so weak the smell of the roses made me faint, when I went down to the garden, and a simple song carried on the wind, or the afternoon’s last pulsing drop of blood in the sky, disturbs me, flooding me with sadness.
Gabriela Mistral, from Selected Prose & Prose Poems; “Sensitive,”
when florence welch said “i am done with my graceless heart so tonight i’m gonna cut it out and then restart”
“I am young and half asleep. It is a time of water, a time of trees.”
— Anne Sexton, excerpt from “Three Green Windows” from Live or Die
I want to be wanted
When people give me compliments, I feel as if I hear them while holding my breath, like I’m internally resisting and not taking them in. But if someone gives me criticism, I ruminate and feel it deep in my bones. My mind and body are a messed up system.
But I deserve better than that. I deserve more than a broken system I inherited from my family. I want more for myself, and to breathe in the good too. I am worthy of positive things, and of recovery.
She’s mad, but she’s magic.
Charles Bukowski
gosh it’s tiring being an angel with a big heart
Yes, I still can breathe, though breath is coming harder, / I still can breathe, but cannot, cannot live.
Fyodor Tyutchev, tr. by Anatoly Liberman, from “Silentium,”
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