- Andrea Gibson

and the bitterness in goodbye

“Dig your teeth into me. Come on, I dare you. Take a bite. Open me up: raw and candyfloss pink on the inside. Make it hurt. I figure, you’re going to hurt me one way or another. Might as well be with your mouth.”

— IT’S A CIRCUS AND WE ALL PAID TO BE HERE,by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)

Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl // Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gentle Spirit // Lyric Hunter, "A Garden" // Margaret Atwood, Power Politics: Poems // @artsy_tay_ on Instagram // William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew // Sappho, "If not, Winter" (trans. Anne Carson)

WHAT COULD YOU POSSIBLY KILL, THAT YOU LOVED SO MUCH THAT IT WOULD MAKE THE SUN RISE AGAIN?

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous  /  Rumi  /  George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones  /  CNS, We are beauty and fire; ash we may be, but we are stronger than them.  /  Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch  /  Rina Sawayama, Dynasty  /  Benjamin West, Death on the Pale Horse (1817)  /  Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina  /  Eugenio Montale, The Storm  /   Succession HBO Opening Credits  /  Bernard Knox, Introduction to The Iliad  /  Into the Badlands AMC  /  Succession HBO S01E08 “Prague”  /  c.d., You do, you know. You deserve peace.  /  Kahlil Gibran, Defeat

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

How do I look away now that I have seen you?

on being seen and known and understood

Rachel Mennies, from "April 18, 2017", The Naomi Letters//Rick Riordan, Mark of Athena//picture: Mihaly Zichy "romantic encounter", quote: Micah Nemerever "These Violent Delights", edit @promqueendyke // Micah Nemerever, "These Violent Delights"//Marie Howe, "The Affliction"//Anne Carson, "Red Doc>"//NA//Taylor Swift, "Daylight"//Elizabeth Gilbert, "Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage"//Little Women (2019)

a study of hua cheng

station eleven— emily st. john mandel / planet of love— richard siken / long life— mary oliver / details from portrait of a lady on fire (2019) / work song— hozier / litany in which certain things are crossed out— richard siken / this is how you lose the time war— amal el-mortar and max gladstone / wild geese— mary oliver / details from l’ange dechu (the fallen angel)— alexandre cabanel / black telephone— richard siken

alone with you in the ether by olivie blake

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980