— January 25, 1922 | Franz Kafka Diaries

sorry i pushed you away i felt abandoned and suicidal

most days i am a museum of things i want to forget.

— E.E. Scott, from Every Day I Am Trying New Techniques To Make Myself Disappear, published in Shabby Doll House

{ Mahmoud Darwish/ Virginia Woolf/ Edgar Allan Poe, from a Letter to Helen Whitman, "The Last Letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman"/ Albert Camus, The Possessed (transl. By O'Brien)/ Emily Dickinson/ Anton Chekhov, The Complete Works of Anton Chekhov "The Two Volodyas"/ Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes/ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women/ Yann Martel, Life of Pi/ Cameron Awkward-Rich, Meditations in an Emergency/ De profundis/ Oscar Wilde}

nobody talks about the fact that you can have all this crazy shit in your head, and want to open up and talk about your feelings but no matter what, you just can't make out the right words and properly put your thoughts and emotions into words

doubting everyone's intentions because I was hurt the most and left by the people who said that they'd never do me like that.

list of things im handling well currently

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natasha trethewey