Brooke

Mitski, Goodbye My Danish Sweetheart

Mary Oliver, We Should Be Well Prepared; Red Bird

James Joyce, Exiles: A Play In Three Acts

@8-bitfiction

Annelyse Gelman, Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone

Lemony Snickett, The Beatrice Letters

Nicole Homer, Underbelly

@art-creature

Taylor Swift, The Archer

Sally Rooney, Normal People

“have you ever been in love?” “once.” “how did it end?” “it hasn’t.” (the get down, 2017)

“I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.” (hanya yanagihara)

when you kiss me, heaven sighs (la vie en rose / edith piaf)

“the heart is the toughest part of the body. tenderness is in the hands.” (carolyn forché)

oh, if only I could nestle in the cradle of your cabin, my arms around your shoulders, the windows wide and open (amoreena / elton john)

“the curtains stir. there you are on the bed, like a gift. like a touchable dream.” (carol ann duffy)

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm (that’s no way to say goodbye / roberta flack)

“you’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you.” (richard siken)

love me always, love me always (oscar wilde in a letter to his lover)

“with you, intimacy colors my voice. even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here’.” (warsan shire)

if I could fly, I’d be coming right back home to you (if I could fly / one direction)

Ilya Kaminsky, ‘While the Child Sleeps Sonya Undresses’, Deaf Republic