maybe i should have wanted less

"Burning Out" byHenry Daubrez

Avery Williams, tails between clenched teeth (in le petit 3, january 2025) via @feytouched | Quote by briscoepark on Instagram | Song of the Open by Walt Whitman | You're on Your Own, Kid by Taylor Swift | Pencil drawing by Anthony Cudahy | Mamma Told Me by Mother Mother | Mother by Maia Baia | From the poem Salt by Trista Mateer (book: The Dogs I Have Kissed) | Unknown | Nevermind by Michael Howard | Muslim Girlhood by Leila Chatti | Quote source | Poetry by @ojibwa | Antigone by Sophocles | Art by @nevahosking | Sylvia Plath | Poetry by @traumatizeddfox | Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Art by Tim Dayhuff | Quote by Helaena Moon @hapless-hollow | Quote by Sainteda on Wattpad (?) | Spear by Elizabeth Acevedo | White Oleander by Janet Fitch | Illustration by Carlos Alonso from Under Someone Else's Rain by Juan Gelman | Quote by S.P. | Mya G. Wolf

— Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

HOW’S THAT HOUSE THAT RAISED YOU? - Lev St. Valentine

Ocean waves made of maps by Matthew Cusick

Tove Ditlevsen, from a poem featured in There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

on shame and yearning (pt.1)

gnaw at the heartbeat - wenyi xue / moon song - phoebe bridgers / let dead dogs lie - silas denver melvin / @strawberry-crocodile / nice pup - chloe moriondo / @ashstfu / @valtsv / @inkskinned / it will come back - hozier / @twoheadedfawnn / @/simplyrotten / clean slated state - the altogether / speeches for dr frankenstein - margaret atwood / faulty - leila chatti / belovéd - yves olade / against the kitchen floor - will wood / st bernard - lincoln / imposter syndrome - sidney gish

— Albert Camus to Maria Casarès, Correspondance (July 17, 1949) (via lunamonchtuna)

Haruko/Love Poems, June Jordan

Someone Else's Hunger, Isabella DeSendi

Black Jam, Matthew Haigh

Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway

Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World