what are we doing here

In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | 2000

Olga Knipper-Chekhova, from a letter to Anton Chekhov featured in The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov

'Eternal Fairy Tale ' by Bruno Schulz, 1920

Ansellia africana (Leopard Orchid)

Ada Limón, "The Quiet Machine"

Rika

Natalie Díaz, from “exhibits from The American Water Museum”, Postcolonial Love Poem

he’s so real

Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser”, Time Is a Mother

— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

Richard Siken, "The Worm King's Lullaby" // Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters // Trista Mateer, "I Still Forget We're Not Even Friends" // Naomi Shihab Nye, "I Still Have Everything You Gave Me" // Ashe Vernon, Wrong Side of a Fistfight // @/hollywarbs on ig // Ryan O'Connell // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // June Gehringer, "I get so jealous of euthanized dogs" // Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

I should be prepared. (get prepared) come up with something clever to say on my deathbed, a dying declaration. something profound would be best, but all of the good ones, have already been taken.

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— Nicola Yoon