elenita.

— Eduardo C. Corral

Warsan Shire, from “Hooyo Isn't Home”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

[Text ID: “I am trying to stop doing / things that don’t make any sense. Body, / forgive me. I am trying. I am trying. I am still trying.]

Octavio Paz, tr. by Eliot Weinberger, from “Letter of Testimony”, The Poems of Octavio Paz

Mona Awad, from Bunny

- Beau Taplin

[text ID: To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.]

Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927

[text ID: I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.]

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

— Clementine von Radics, from James (via unpetalled)

― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

Text ID: —I have so much love in me that I would like to cry;

Michael Cunningham, The Hours

manhattan

[ID: “I feel so lonely, like childhood again.” end ID]