Summertime Sadness

My darling you are art.

And art was never meant to be pretty

It was never meant to be easy on the eyes

If anything , art was supposed to burn

burn a hole deep enough into your skin that you’d be forced to notice it,

listen to it ,

understand it

Art is the manifestation of humanity’s disasters.

It is chaos ,

it is trouble ,

it is insanity ,

it is pain

Art is what a mind would cower to utter and a heart would race to scream.

Art is blood

and it is sweat

and it is tears.

It warms the cold and disturbs the content.

How terrifying it must be, to grow acres of trees on dead soil.

How horrifying, to find beauty in the distraught.

And yet here I am, picturing Lillies in your hair as I caress your gentle skin

If this is what it meant to be burned,

then I will claw at a life of soot and ash

for a promise of a tomorrow

where your shadows intertwine with mine

I'm not sure if it's a DID thing or a psychosis thing- or a combination of both, but we have to doubt what we feel because physical symptoms could just be somatic, or emotions could be another alter's.

Ari Banias, from Anybody: Poems; “Bouquet”

2. Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

ENFJ: When they took everything from you, you found a way to make something from nothing.

ENFP: Facts are for the unimaginative.

INFJ: We are all someone's monster.

INFP: She wouldn’t wish love on anyone. It was the guest you welcomed and then couldn’t be rid of.

ENTJ: When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.

ENTP: If you can't beat the odds, change the game.

INTJ: The easiest way to steal a man’s wallet is to tell him you’re going to steal his watch. You take his attention and direct it where you want it to go.

INTP: Better terrible truths than kind lies.

ESFJ: Men mock the gods until they need them.

ESFP: Nina just liked to flirt with everything. He’d once seen her make eyes at a pair of shoes she fancied in a shop window.

ISFJ: There’s a difference between confidence and arrogance.

ISFP: A secret’s not like coin. It doesn’t keep its value in the spending.

ESTJ: "Our hopes rest with you, Mister Brekker. If you fail, all the world will suffer for it." "Oh, it's worse than that, Van Eck. If I fail, I don't get paid."

ESTP: "The trick is not getting knocked down," he'd told her with a laugh. "No, Kaz," she'd said, "the trick is in getting back up."

ISTJ: If your god is so delicate, maybe you should get a new one.