Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"
Ed van der Elsken - Kuß, Paris, 1953
“I am too young and I’ve loved you too much.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lana del Rey
they hate me because i'm silly and so intense at the same time
Galatea Doon Kanda 2022
one of the most important things i’ve learned in therapy is that when you’ve experienced prolonged trauma in your childhood, pleasure feels uncomfortable. like, not that you don’t feel it, but that when you do feel it there’s an impulse to make it stop, because it’s extremely unfamiliar. and pleasure can mean many things, as simple as feeling cozy, and as complex as feeling loved. the neural pathways for feeling good have not had a chance to develop, and the neural pathways for feeling bad are quite practiced. feeling good, too, takes conscious practice.
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Louis Garrel in L'Homme Fidèle 2018
Une femme est une femme
“If a self can contain the deaths of others, it’s very large;”
— Alice Notley, from Mysteries of Small Houses; II—The Person That You Were Will Be Replaced.
“I want to shriek at any identity this culture gives me claw it to pieces;”
— Alice Notley, from Mysteries of Small Houses; A Baby Is Born Out of a White Owl’s Forehead—1972.
im in the wrong realm and i think everyone can tell