It is June. I am tired of being brave.

Anne Sexton via wordedarchive

- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla, 1876

Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

— William Faulkner

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

Animal Farm, George Orwell.

Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bluest Nude”

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'

Miranda July, The First Bad Man

— Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell The Wolves I'm Home

It was April and she was the saddest thing under the sun.

Khush Bakht via wordedarchive

"Days will pass, and you'll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality."

– Nizar Qabbani

"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot explain it to myself."

- Franz Kafka

- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla, 1876