— Van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
if you like my poems let them
walk in the evening, a little behind youif you like my poems let them, e. e. cummings
“Because tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.”
— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
[That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.]
It terrifies you. That you missed out on something. That you gave up something you didn’t know you wanted.
—Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, from Aristotle And Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (via lunamonchtuna)
Franz Kafka, the metamorphosis / Jane Austen
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit
Alice Oseman, Radio Silence
I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.
-Sylvia Plath
— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra