My Chest, My Beloved — Your Land, Your Home, Your Homeland.

a deep connection can’t be formed without emotional safety. without safety, there’s no trust. without trust, there’s no vulnerability. without vulnerability, there’s no intimacy + without intimacy, there’s no true connection.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Book 1 “Inferno,” Canto 5 [tr. James (2013)]

Good Girl and Other Yearnings, Isabelle Correa

— v, excerpts from a book i’ll never write #2 (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

coming out of my cage and i been doing just bad. going back in my cage because i like my cage

Anthem, Leonard Cohen

no one talks about how hard it is when your mood is constantly switching between "its okay, i don't care. i'm fine" and "i don't know how much more i can take"

Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

Joseph Brodsky, from The Selected Poems of Joseph Brodsky; "A Song,"