― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice
[text ID: I mustn't look at you too much, or I won't be able to take my eyes off you at all.]
Rune Lazuli // Jerzy Kosiński
Jamie Varon
Knowing you made me refuse to move
Loving you cemented my feet to the ground
But when she came not only did she push me away
You let her
Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”
Marina Tsvetayeva
I only confessed because I wanted you to know. But I also hoped, hoped that you could love me as much as I do you
I care for you
I watch you sitting silently
I want you
I hear your voice
I love you
You call out my name
And now I live for you
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
[text ID: I wish the world were ending tomorrow. Then I could take the next train, arrive at your doorstep in Vienna, and say, 'Come with me, Milena. We are going to love each other without scruples or fears or restraint because the world is ending tomorrow.' ]
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals
[Text ID: “Love is an illusion, but I would willingly fall for it if I could believe in it.”]
Franz Kafka // Sylvia Plath
Florence and The Machine, from “Caught“
yes to heaven
Anaïs Nin, from the short story “Elena”, Delta of Venus (published posthumously in 1977)
Lady Kasa, from Ariake: Poems of Love and Longing by the Women Courtiers of Ancient Japan
[Text ID: "I faint from my desire."]