Latest Posts by thesleepyblueocean - Page 5

I suppose kitchens are a space for intimacy because I will touch with my hands the things that will go in your mouth, I will taste what you taste...

// Ella Risbridger, In the Kitchen

Suffering, no matter how prolonged, how acute, or how intense, is not a permanent state. All suffering—the anguish and the pain—will eventually give way to joy and hope. Even the darkest night will eventually yield to the dawn.

"my body burned like a barnful of feathers

nothing was on fire but fire was on everything."

Kaveh Akbar | Calling A Wolf A Wolf

"September the golden threshold between summer and winter."

Meeta Ahluwalia

"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire."

Charles Bukowski

- Vladimir Nabokov

"there is no shame in emotion even the earth cries so its flowers can grow."

I Saw You As A Flower Ellen Everett

Xander: Mr Caine-

Tristan: You don't have to call me that, Xander.

Xander: Oh, okay.

Xander: Dad.

Tristan:

Tristan, voice cracking: Yes?

Saw you get on the train.

But it didn't feel like it was the end. It didn't feel like it was over. It felt like we had a chance.

It felt like a start to something. Something new, something hopeful, I could feel it in my bones.

- Blue💙

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"She always had that look about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world."

Joanne Harris

“If it stays, it is love. If it ends, It’s a love story. If it never begins, it is poetry.”

Unknown

"i wonder if we ever think of each other at the same time."

— Sylvia Plath (via lunamonchtuna)

Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it,

I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it.

All Too Well | Taylor Swift

“I’ll always remember that look on your face. You saw me. You’ve always seen me. And I think that’s all that anyone wants.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

Vivamus, moriendum est.

Translation: Let us live, since we must die.

Please stop apologizing for having a heart that feels everything so deeply. It's a gift, wear it proudly.

You'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling.

- Good Luck, Babe | Chappell Roan

I walk and walk with cold hands. Back at the house it is filled with longing, nothing to carry longing away. I look back over my life. I try to find analogies. There are none. I have longed for people before, I have loved people before. Not like this. It was not this.

- Anne Carson

"I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive."

The Secret History | Donna Tart

"It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know."

Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace

She had sorcery in those eyes, and he was bewitched, besotted, begone.

Gothikana | RuNyx

And we created you in pairs [78:8]

— Audrey Niffenegger, from The Time Traveler's Wife (via lunamonchtuna)

- Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

His face in my dreams, seizing my guts, he floods me with dread. Soaked in soul, he swims in my eyes by the bed. Pour myself over him, moon spilling in And I wake up alone.

- Amy Winehouse

Kiss me, beneath the milky twilight Lead me out on the moonlit floor Lift your open hand Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance Silver moon's sparkling So kiss me