Literature | Gothic Author Quotes

when margaret atwood said “i'm sorry there is so much pain in this story” and richard siken said “there is no other version of this story” and mary oliver said “you don’t want to hear the story of my life, and anyway, i don’t want to tell it”

i want to go home. i will always want to go home. even when i am at home i want to go home. but i’m not really thinking of a place, it’s more that feeling of everything finally being over, of seeing the light in the windows of your house on a cold night, of being safe, the relief of leaving a party you’re not enjoying, like when you felt sick at school and they sent you home, or when you got upset at a sleepover and they called your parents. i want my mam to come get me. i want to go home.

1.pat the bunny, I'm not a good person // 2. // 3. mitski, a pearl, art by @hauntedomens // 4.hieu minh nguyen, buffet etiquette // 5.art from pinterest // 6.christa wolf tr. by jan van heurck, cassandra: a novel and four essays // 7.extracurricular (2020) dir.kim jin min // 8.louise bourgeois, destruction of the father/reconstruction of the father: writings and interviews 1923-1997 // 9.alice osman, radio silence // mitski, fireworks, art by uol.art (on insta)

("I exist in two places: here and where you are")

Suzanne Buffam, "Vanishing Interior"

Sufjan Stevens, "The Only Thing"

Rene Ricard, "And Then I Tried"

Let something happen. Something terrible, something bloody.

Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and The Bible of Dreams; from ‘Stone Boy with Dolphin’

“Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women; kitchen of lust, / bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. / Sometimes, the men – they come with keys, / and sometimes, the men – they come with hammers.”

— Warsan Shire, from “The House,” Her Blue Body

“If a monster falls in love with another monster, is it desire? Is it fate? It’s tragedy.”

— thoughts #130 | r.m (via twofacedharveydent)

hollowness

sylvia plath // lydia roberts // juansen dison “i am the architect of my own destruction” // sarah dessen //ellen jackman//haruki murakami “sputnik sweetheart” // f. scott fitzgerald // miles johnson

Mahmoud Darwish, from Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems; “The Flute Cried,”