[shaking myself by the shoulders] i will get better. i will continue. i have no goddamn choice
gigi✧
Will your love reach my horizon, even if I'm a starless void, devouring on shadows and silhouettes, slipping through my own fingers....................
everytimeyousaygoodbye ©
“Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off, but it’s better if you do.”
Natalie Portman in Closer (2004) dir. Mike Nichols
In Barbie (2023), directed by Greta Gerwig, Ken says he wants to spend the night with Barbie because they're boyfriend and girlfriend and when she asks him "to do what?", he replies "I'm actually not sure". This is a perfect analogy to kids playing with Barbie dolls, as they know that couples "do things" but are too young to know exactly what. In this essay I will
“One day the war will be over, and I can return to my poem.”
When a physicist falls in love :)
Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.
“Girl, aging girl, is haunted by own nothingness & devours views from windows (stories, movies, overheard talk & sights in the street, pictures in newspapers, etc.) with continuous feeling she is ‘just about’, miraculously, to come into her own – her own life.”
— Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. IV: 1944-1947
love is real and it’s saturday morning sunlight spilling onto the bathroom tiles as the faucet drips and ur rubbing lotion into ur face and it’s spring and the love of ur life is waiting in the kitchen for u and there’s a peeled clementine on the counter and u haven’t flinched in years