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I. “the vault” andrés cerpa II. “blood makes the blade holy” evan knoll III. “the sentence” anna akhmatova IV. “sweet the sound” clementine von radics V. vincent van gogh VI. “carnet de voyage” craig thompson VII. “v for vendetta” alan moore VIII. “highly logical behavior” john corey whaley
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."― Ernest Hemingway
the worst fate is to live my life without you in it.
"You will care for somebody, and you'll love him tremendously, and live and die for him. I know you will, it's your way, and you will and I'll watch."
bazalt adım taşı
Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
“The Good Fight” Ada Limón, “Infinite Jest” David Foster Wallace, “Ophelia” John Everett Millais, “Red Doc” Anne Carson, “I wanted to be the knife” Sara Sutterlin, “A primer for the small weird loves” Richard Siken, “First memory” Louise Glück.
the autobiography of red, anne carson // the hours, michael cunningham // autobiography of my hungers, eduardo c. corral // the embrace, ron hicks // to myself, ron hicks // desire, years and years // how to live safely in a science fictional universe, charles yu // birds hover the trampled field, richard siken // romantic soul, ron hicks // ego, m. roosevelt & mitski
walk down with me, hand in hand
—Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
“He placed his mouth on her throat, kissing the words she could not utter. He seemed to divine where she wanted a kiss to fall next, what part of her body demanded to be warmed.”
Mary Oliver, “From the Book of Time”
Maggie Stiefvater, “Blue Lily, Lily Blue”
Sylvia Plath, “The Bell Jar”
Walt Whitman, “Leaves of Grass”
walk down with me, hand in hand
Joseph Mallord William Turner
the only person that understands me is richard siken
’The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde (published in 1890)
- Donna Tartt, The Secret History
“Give me a few days of peace in your arms—I need it terribly. I’m ragged, worn, exhausted. After that I can face the world.”
— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
William Shakespeare, from ‘Macbeth’
when sylvia plath wrote “the silence depressed me. it wasn’t the silence of silence. it was my own silence.” and when anne carson wrote “why does tragedy exist? because you are full of rage. why are you full of rage? because you are full of grief.” and when jenny slate wrote “and i am getting older but i am not growing up and my heart is getting soft dark spots on it like a fruit that has gone bad.” and when virginia woolf wrote “to want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain.” and when susanna kaysen wrote “when you’re sad, you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.” and when margaret atwood wrote “already my childhood seemed far away – a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. did i regret its loss, did i want it back? i didn’t think so…” and when gillian flynn wrote “i was not a lovable child, and i’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult.”
Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost
Adonis, tr. by Samuel Hazo, from “The Crow’s Feather”, The Pages of Day and Night
the autobiography of red, anne carson // the hours, michael cunningham // autobiography of my hungers, eduardo c. corral // the embrace, ron hicks // to myself, ron hicks // desire, years and years // how to live safely in a science fictional universe, charles yu // birds hover the trampled field, richard siken // romantic soul, ron hicks // ego, m. roosevelt & mitski