I Know My Sadness Will Pass If I Do Not Cling To It So Tightly

✨ Nicholas [weverse​ 20250424]

Joy Sullivan, from “Move to Oregon in July”, Instructions for Traveling West

Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust

No man has ever looked at me the way you do. Its not lust. Its not love either. Its beyond human experience, something no one has ever witnessed, so it lacks a name. Its something higher than simple love.

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letter to his wife Véra

Ilya Kaminsky, from "A Cigarette", Deaf Republic

"𝐽𝑒 𝑡’𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑒. 𝐴𝑢𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑑’ℎ𝑢𝑖. 𝐶𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑖𝑟. 𝐷𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛. 𝑃𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠".

—Michelle Hodkin,The Retribution of Mara Dyer (the third book).

— v // erica jong, insomnia & poetry (via letsbelonelytogetherr)