vanquishedvaliant:

Actual Cyberpunk Edgerunners text: “Is a dangerous freedom more valuable than stifling conformity? Is it acceptable to live your life for someone else’s dreams if you don’t have any of your own? Is achieving those dreams worthwhile if you are unable to share them with your loved ones? Where is the line between maturing and growing jaded? What does it mean to feel like you’re Special, and how would you know if it’s true? How far can someone strong push beyond their limits before breaking down? Is it better to trust others or look out for yourself, and what kind of person do these philosophies breed? What does alienation from others and even your own body do to your mind? Can you overcome impossible adversity by burning your life away, or will you fade to ash without seeing results?”

Cranky people on the internet: “yeah its just a big sad tragedy where everyone dies and it looks nice but it’s not About much, overrated.”

tunisian:

"A scar remembers the wound. The wound remembers the pain. Once more you are crying." — Mark StrandALT
"You didn't 'preciate me, the only one there, you didn't 'preciate me, no matter how much I care." — Lyrics from the song "Save Yourself", by Colette LushALT
"It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal." — Edward M. ForsterALT
"Would it make you feel better, babe / If I told you I've been feeling things you don't believe in? / Thinking that I'm seeing things / Your heart is in the ground and my head's through the ceiling" Lyrics from "Bitter Pill" by Christian KuriaALT
"The center of every poem is this: I have loved you. I have had to deal with that." — Salma DeeraALT
"To expect too much it to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness." — Flannery O'ConnorALT
"When I want something with my whole being, and the universe withholds it from me, I hope the universe thinks to herself: "Silly Girl. She thinks this is what she wants, but she does not understand how it will hurt."ALT
"I am too full of life to be half loved" — Ijeoma UmebinyuoALT
"I want to tell you this story without having to confess anything, without having to say that I ran out into the street to prove something, that he didn't love me, that I wanted to be possessed, thrown over, that I wanted to have the wounds nailed shut. I want to tell you this story without having to be in it." — Richard SikenALT
"I am trying to make myself digestible. I am trying to make myself easy to love." — I. B. VyacheALT
"I am trying to stop doing things that don't make any sense. Body, forgive me. I am trying. I am trying. I am still trying." — Blythe BairdALT

it hurts to love you because you dont love me back

mark strand / colette lush / edward m. forster / christian kuria / salma deera / flannery o’connor / blythe baird / ijeoma umebinyuo / richard siken / ib vyache / blythe baird

strykerlancer:

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— Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Works; “The Old Man and the Sea,”

whetstonegirl:

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hunger → (obsession) → anger

Anne Carson, Plainwater / Half-Light, Frank Bidart / Gut Feminism, Elizabeth A. Wilson / @wormbus-art / “The Aliens Seek to Understand Pain, ” Kristina Erny / “Everyone You’ve Loved,” Susannah Irene / Blood, Tin, Straw, Sharon Olds / Lisa Marie Basile, “I Put the Coffin Out to Sea” / We Inherit What the Fires Left, William Evans

weltenwellen:

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Warsan Shire, from “Backwards”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

strykerlancer:

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— Rebecca Tamás, from “Witch.”

saprophilous:

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Dalia and Lune OCs belonging to Riocakes Love these two ToT

weltenwellen:

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Warsan Shire, from “To Swim with God”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

metamorphesque:

― favorite words of … haruki murakami (part 1)

A Wild Sheep Chase / Sputnik Sweetheart / After the Quake / The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle / Norwegian Wood / Sputnik Sweetheart / The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle / South of the Border, West of the Sun / Kafka on the Shore / Norwegian Wood / 1Q84 / Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman / South of the Border, West of the Sun / Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

˗ˏˋin case you’d like to buy me a☕ˎˊ˗  

louisegluck:

When I have to die, I would like to die on a day of rain — long rain, slow rain, the kind you think will never end.ALT

Mary Oliver, from “Marengo.” [ID in alt text]

dailykafka:

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- November 2, 1911

- The diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1913

[ID: November 2. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart. End ID]

Just remembering the “You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.” quote… whats with this man and knives…

voirlvmer:

“But grief compels me, maybe even more than sleep. I am waiting for something to last. I know nothing will.”

— Sanna Wani, “Who is the Sun, Asking for Sleep?”, My Grief, the Sun