Louisa Elise

— Jeremy Radin, ‘Pipe Organ Owl Mansion’ (via soracities)

[Text ID: “I didn’t even get close. / I called and called / and nothing came. / I had a body, and / it refused to rise for work.”]

—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

from Tiny Beautiful Things, adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos. 

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

Ada Limón, “Against Nostalgia”, The Hurting Kind

— Callista Buchen, Taking Care

Anaïs Nin, Fire: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1937

Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn, 1936

Louise Glück, from “Faithful and Virtuous Night.”

[Text ID: Poetry O my Saint — forgive me / but I need to stay alive / to cross over to the other side; / anything would be preferable / to my slow assassination by the past.]

[Text ID: “I got cursed, in every way a / woman can. / You kill yourself, over and over, / to be different.”]

[Text ID: “I can’t exist in a way that comforts you.”]

[Text ID: “She is so tired of waiting / —aren’t you?— / for the world to become good / and tolerable and kind.”]

And I want to be held down. I don’t know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me. 

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