Angela Carter, From The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories; "The Courtship Of Mr Lyon,"

- James Baldwin talking about Love

last day of august.

ur early 20s are about being obsessed with kindness and mary oliver and seasonal fruits and recreating comfort foods you ate as a child and learning how to love and crying because you have no choice but to live the life before you and finding god on the bus back from the grocery store

what if, all my life I just end up seeing everyone else fall in love? and wait for mine but it's never been close?

🧿

good things will happen 💫

things that are meant to be will fall into place 💫

I kept spiraling with a lot of emotions the entire day, my anxiety and fears never stopped giving me a hard time. I thought of all things that could go wrong, all the ways that I'm incapable of love and maybe keeping it alive, all the ways I really truly desire people to be close to me yet I fear them being replaceable or me being replaced. Everything felt like a big puzzle, big chunk of questions kept coming to me, tarot readings made my days even worse, and despite it all. I just wanna sleep in my blanket and dream and feel safe and say this to myself that,

"Darling, if its the right person. The love will always stay. Love is always the answer. It will stay. Love will always stay. You'll know when you know."

a love like that, all mine🫀

Joanna Glenn, from her novel titled "All My Mothers," originally published in 2021

it always came down to this, since the very beginning of time but if we keep wanting it, we're told it's pathetic, by the time we act tough, it might be gone. fools.

E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Quotes by Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath