May 2013
“After you learn every story your mother told you
caught hard in the back of...”
– The Brief Two Seconds After You Ruin Everything, Clementine von Radics (via prettypeachpeonies)
ugly, by warsan shire
weissewiese:
Your daughter is ugly. She knows loss intimately, carries whole cities in her belly.
As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her. She was splintered wood and sea water. They said she reminded them of the war.
On her fifteenth birthday you taught her how to tie her hair like rope and smoke it over burning frankincense.
You made her gargle rosewater and while she coughed, said...
“And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”
– Anna Akhmatova, You Will Hear Thunder, trans. D. M. Thomas (via catfka)
“She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful,...”
– Charles Bukowski, Factotum (via inmilkwood)
“I wait and ache.”
– Sylvia Plath (via pattiocleavis)
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“I didn’t like the way I looked, the way I dressed and moved, what I achieved and...”
– Bernhard Schlink, The Reader (via cesarelucrezia)
“I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe, 1921 (via catfka)
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“The way you slam your
body into mine reminds
me I’m alive, but monsters
are...”
– Richard Siken
Snow and Dirty Rain (via jaimelannister)
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“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
– Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking: True Stories (via catfka)
“Even as I hold you,
I am letting you go.”
– Alice Walker (via hellanne)
“That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism....”
– Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters (via atramentum) 