If you weren't real I would make you up

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Saxon Sydney-Turner, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

— I Guess the Old You is a Ghost (#589: June 25, 2014)

Marie Howe, from “Pain”, What the Living Do

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

The Cathedral, Auguste Rodin (1840 -1917)

Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin.”

this changed it all

Ada Limón, from "Crush", Sharks in the Rivers

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena // Alain de Botton, Essays in Love // Eden Robinson, "Writing Prompts for the Broken-Hearted" // Chloe Liese, Always Only You // Anne Carson and Euripides, An Oresteia // Two—Sleeping At Last // Studio Bones, SK8 the Infinity // Trista Mateer, "is it okay to say this?" // @moodylilac // D. H. Lawrence, "The Rainbow"

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenská written c. August 1920

ocean vuong / john green / donna tartt / mac’s love letter to dennis / richard paul evans / holly black

i never loved you because you were fighters. i loved you because you were builders. i wanted us to build something together.

thomas merton // “eurydice” sarah ruhl // ernest hemingway // anis mojgani “in the pockets of small gods” // lemony snicket // franz kafka “the castle” // @fridayiminlovemp3 (mitski “strawberry blonde”) // mitski “pink in the night” // khalil gibran // gustave flaubert from a letter to george sand, 1876 // danez smith “acknowledgments” // “love freely” E.C. @desultory-suggestions