M: Gabriel Severide. - Blog Posts

— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things: A Novel

dont romanticize the sadness. just let it exist plainly, like it did when you were a very young child, when you werent old enough to give it baggage. you'll find it's more devastating and cleansing that way

“It's just that I belong in the quietest quiet, that's what's right for me.”

Franz Kafka

“Forgive me if I don’t talk much at times. It’s loud enough in my head.”

— Unknown

i overthink. i overlove. i overfeel

Clarice Lispector, from “That’s Where I’m Going”, Soulstorm: Stories (tr. Alexis Levitin)

@idolomantises

“It’s easy to know who I am when I am at peace with my sadness.”

— Juansen Dizon

Franz Kafka, the metamorphosis / Jane Austen

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

Fariha Róisín, from Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

[Text ID: “I never fought back, I learned how to cry silently, I bore my sins.”]

Jamie Anderson/Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

Grief and love are interconnected

Kate Chopin, from The Awakening

Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

F. Scott Fitzgerald, from a letter to Zelda Fitzgerald

shaking six year old me by the shoulders YOU WERE RIGHT. YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT LOVE AND ABOUT FAIRNESS AND ABOUT SHARING IS CARING. YOU WERE RIGHT. THE ADULTS DON’T KNOW ANY MORE ABOUT TRUTH THAN YOU DO. KEEP BELIEVING IN THE FAIRIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN. NOTHING IS “JUST THE WAY IT IS”. I AM SORRY THEY EVER CONVINCED YOU TO FEEL SHAME. YOU ARE REAL AND A PART OF THIS WORLD. YOU WERE RIGHT.

-Oscar Wilde

Jane O. Wayne // Kate Jacobs

― Speeches for Dr Frankenstein, Margaret Atwood

[text ID: you dangle on the leash / of your own longing; your /  need grows teeth]

St. Nicholas Cathedral // Prague // Czech Republic

Angela Carter, from "The Lady of the House of Love", The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories