"The sum
of your parts
is
my whole
most beautiful
chart
of constellations."
Marilyn Hacker, from Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (via violentwavesofemotion)
(via lifeinpoetry)
"I wanted to be missed, like water, like bread, like air, by all other people in all other places."
Jean-Paul Sartre, from “The Words” (via violentwavesofemotion)
(via lifeinpoetry)
"One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find."
Jeanette Winterson, from “The Stone Gods” (via violentwavesofemotion)
(via lifeinpoetry)
"Some people are like that, drenched in sorrow, despite the expression on their face."
Anne Michaels, “The Winter Vault” (via pigmenting)
(via lifeinpoetry)
"Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets."
Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger (via seabois)
(via seabois)
"Everything is, unbelievingly, unfolding into another spring, when the damn world makes us think we are as young as we ever were and deceives us by pale lucid skies and the sudden opening of little leaves."
Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals (via violentwavesofemotion)
"Keep me up until five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason."
J.D Salinger, from Seymour: An Introduction (via violentwavesofemotion)
"I love all those who are as heavy drops."
Friedrich Nietzsche, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via violentwavesofemotion)
"I wanted to marry an absence."
Thomas James, from “Longing for Death” (via awritersruminations)
"There was always the hunger,
The death of small things
Somewhere in your body"
Thomas James, from “Two Aunts” (via awritersruminations)
