C’mere. “cups Your Cheeks And Kisses You Softly On The Lips*… I Love You

my favourite thing ever is looking at notebooks of people who are long gone. it's just, something about seeing their handwriting, seeing a physical and intimate proof that they too existed and had ideas and thoughts and had so much to say and worry about, makes me feel like I am not wasting my time. and if they could go through it and live a life, I can too. to see their minds at work, story ideas, letters, poems, all in their handwriting... head in hands

— vladimir nabokov, in a letter to his wife [24 march 1937] from letters to véra (trans. olga voronina & brian boyd)

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” — Claude Monet.

The Water Lily Pond (1899) by Claude Monet.

“i love him.”

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“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

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Sue Zhao

‘heather’ by conan gray but it’s raining outside your bedroom. (headphones recommended) (youtube)

friends to lovers never had a bad track. “scared i’ll ruin what we have” SLAPS. “friendship cuddles while secretly dying inside” BANGER. “teasing each other and holding eye contact for a little too long” KILLS ME. and don’t even get me STARTED on “screaming i love you in the middle of a heated argument.”

—H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

We Are Okay | Nina LaCour

The first day we met, I drew a fish and an eye on his whiteboard. The second time we met, he told me he kept them. It has been half a year, and the fish and the eye are still there. To me, love looks like a fish and an eye.

-my poem