Sometimes I see a girl’s shoulders/collarbone area and I’m suddenly possessed by the spirit of a 19th century lesbian first seeing another girl removing her dress to reveal pantaloons and corset in the dorms at the all-girls boarding school her parents sent her to so she may be trained in proper etiquette
Etikett: about astrid
I know. I’m very hard to talk to. I realize that.
J.D. Salinger
Imagine being beautiful and NOT fucked up
I’m such an old-fashioned, romantic, love letters, hand holding, yours forever kind of girl
I am wrapped in myself,
trapped in myself.
Larissa Shmailo, from In Paran: Poems; “Frog Prayer,” wr. c. 2009
I keep thinking, thinking, and my thoughts are all sick, and my head is sick.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, from Stories; “The Meek One,” written c. 1876
Everything about me is unfinished, insufficient.
Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé written c. December 1905
“I’m in pain because the day is ending and somehow I am never healing.”
— Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)
My heart will not deliver me from my memories…
Aimé Césaire, from “And The Dogs Were Silent,”
The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire
The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire
(Wesleyan University Press, 2017
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