there's an ocean between christ and myself
please don't follow me i just want to talk to myself

#words

firstfullmoon

home— / not to be in love with you /I can’t remember what it was like / it must’ve been lousyALT

James Schuyler, from “The Elizabethan’s Called It Dying,” in Collected Poems

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anne carson

karamazovdmitri:
“—Anna Akhmatova, The Last Toast, tr. by D. M. Thomas
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—Anna Akhmatova, The Last Toast, tr. by D. M. Thomas

hopesanddreams15

"I was raised Catholic," he began.
"But you're not now?" the judge asked, frowning.
"No," he said. He had worked for years to keep the apology out of his voice when he said this.

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

letterful:
“— ELAINE FEINSTEIN, from “Another Toast.” ”

— ELAINE FEINSTEIN, from “Another Toast.”

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Maggie Nelson, Bluets

derangedrhythms

I’ve lived my life like a serial killer; finish with one part, strangle it and move on to the next. Life in neat little boxes is life in neat little coffins, the dead bodies of the past laid out side by side.

Jeanette Winterson, from ‘Gut Symmetries’

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Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life