I Needed To Read This

“Hair all tangled this morning - Shall I smooth it With spring rain Dripping form the jet-black Wings of swallows?”

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Yosano Akiko, “Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami”

“Alone!!! I am alone, I am always alone, No matter what.”

Original handwritting found in one of Marilyn Monroe’s diary.

She’s a lot like you, Oda Iselin Sønderland

Jill Osier, “Small Town”

[text ID: Listen. The rug is wet because I stood here. Because it started pouring. Because your door was open and I was under a tree. Because it was raining. Because the rain and tree both were in your backyard. Because so was I. Because you weren’t home. Because I knew you were bowling. Because  I walk your road. Because your road goes by your house. Because I felt like a walk. Because it was going to rain. Because your door is never locked.]

musings on stars

Oscar Wilde, Vincent van Gogh (2,3,5), Virginia Woolf, tumblr user @seizethehistory 

“Oh the bitten mouth, oh the kissed limbs, oh the hungering teeth, oh the entwined bodies.”

— Pablo Neruda, from “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair” published c. 1924

maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story 𓆜 𓆝

the graveyard book, neil gaiman / champion, marie lu / @nicolezaridze (website here) / another night on mars, the maine / high all the time, the neighbourhood / aphrodite made me do it, trista mateer / quote: winnie-the-pooh, a.a. milne, image: community (2009-2015); s3e14 "pillows and blankets" [art: @maudlincat] / dearalexandra (deactivated) / the circus, olivia levez / i'll give you the sun, jandy nelson

edit: the troy & abed quote photo was made by @maudlincat !!

image descriptions below the cut

1. Black text on a yellow background reads, "You're my friend. So you can't be a stranger."

2. Black text on a light grey background reads, "Someday, perhaps in the far and distant future, we'll find each other again."

3. A digital drawing of three blue houses with yellow windows on a black background. One house is in the top right corner, the second is in the middle left, and the third is at the center bottom of the image. Around the houses are various illustrations of blue clouds and green trees. To the left of the house in the top right corner, there is a yellow crescent moon with one eye and blue arms holding the leaves of a tree. There are orange outlines of two people walking away from each other, one in the top left corner and the other on the right, near the bottom. In the center of the image, black text in four yellow bubbles reads, in all caps, "We can go on a walk tomorrow, / or we can catch up in a year / I'll see you when I'll see you, / but until then, take care"

4. Black text with grey highlight on a white background reads, "What's another night on Mars? / With friends like ours / Anywhere is home"

5. Dark blue text on a medium blue background reads, "You're my best friend, I'll love you forever"

6. Blue text with yellow highlight on a white background reads, "What brings us together will always be more powerful than what keeps us apart."

7. A scene from the TV series "Community." A photograph of two young men, Abed Nadir and Troy Barnes, on the cover of a handmade yellow booklet tied together with red string. Abed and Troy are standing side-by-side and smiling. Troy has his hand on Abed's shoulder. Abed is wearing light green pyjamas with various spacecraft on them. Troy is wearing an orange shirt with a blue collar. Orange handwriting on the cover, above the photograph, reads, "Friendship of the year (again)!" Black text on a white background has been edited onto the bottom left corner of the image. The text reads, ""We'll be friends forever, won't we, Pooh?" / "Even longer.""

8. Black text on a white background reads, "To those who have already passed through my life and to those who eventually will: I love you. I miss you. The back door will always be unlocked if you ever feel like coming home."

9. Blue text on a white background reads, "I want you to know that there's always a home for you here."

Jessica Silversaga for A Doll’s House magazine, 2011.