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Vogue US, September 1990.

Ph. Arthur Elgort

thoughts & prayers - april edition (11/12)

Her body is full of raw, unmatched power. There seems to be a reactor burning at the very core of her physical being, propelling forth magnetic forces that either burn right through you or drag you to her feet.

- Lilith in 10th house, Scorpio rising, Pluto in 1st house

opalescence

i want to be here.

Must be the season of the witch

And the smell of incense filled her room

“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”

— Stephanie Lennox, I Don’t Remember You

“Listen to me: If we are truly meant to be, then we will find our way back to each other. It’s as simple as that.”

— Dawson’s Creek

““Don’t listen to yourself; listen to the advice that you give others.” - Michael Lottner”

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“That’s true and it’s unfair to laugh at the lead singer in the opera who sings an aria while lying on the stage, mortally wounded. We lie on the ground and sing for years.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I would never tie you down, not even with garlands of roses. I don’t want anything from you that doesn’t come from your own impulse, like water from the springs.”

— Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “XLVI”

“But life went on, even at times like this, and it was surprising how easy it was to keep going as though nothing had changed. I found it strange that I could walk down the street and appear normal, just like anyone else. That I could be in complete turmoil inside, and yet my reflection in a shop window could look the same as it ever had.”

— Moshi Moshi, Banana Yoshimoto

“Summer arrives in a strawberry, sweet, juicy. As long as you feel its flesh on your tongue you’re unaware how. One minute inches into the next. But how could you observe awareness anyway? Or, for that matter, a thought? It grows in you, not as a sensation. (Nor like a baby or tumor.) An experience that you can’t hold on to. Any more than to the smell of lilac. Though it soothes emptiness.”

— Rosmarie Waldrop, from “Asymmetry (2)”, The Nick of Time: Poems

reminded me of him

honestly bpd sucks because i’ll be showing up for ppl because i think they're worth it and i don't want them to leave me, but they don't show up for me, which implies im not worth it and losing me isn't worth the effort and it's so painful being the only one giving a fuck

being so angry that you start crying is on the top 10 for most embarrassing things that can happen to a girl

“A lot of people tell me I’m a bit dreamy. But I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.”

— Alex Turner

— Margaret Atwood, from “Morning in the Burned House.”

Pablo Neruda, Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: One Hundred Love Sonnets; from ‘XVII’, tr. Stephen Mitchell

frank o’hara, “to the harbormaster”

Illustration from Pierre Louÿs' The Songs of Bilitis by Willy Pogany (1926)

I try to find you, yet you are not here. / I’ve studied absence, fought to fill it in—

— Denise Riley, from "Hiding in plain sight," Say Something Back & Time Lived, Without Its Flow