ELEMENTAL

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from "The Complete Novels of Mary Shelly,"

Text ID: I myself keep my emptiness inside of me, and this certainty that I am alone, that nothing can satisfy me, that my happiness will have to be willed so strongly, so severely that it will be more of a fatigue than a peace.

Text ID: my solitude is an intoxication: I am, I'm in control, I love myself, and I scorn everything else.

Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red

Kelley Beeson

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

"A Letter That Will Never Reach You", Hovhannes Grigoryan (translated by metamorphesque)

[Text ID: “I’ve cut myself off. / I can feel the place / where I used to be attached. / It’s raw, as when you grate / your finger. It’s a shredded mess / of images. It hurts.”]

Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation

maybe if i keep everything sealed and precious it will stay unchanging

“Healing Grotto” by Cindy Baedman

noah ross / jennifer gennari / roadkill - searows / st. bernard - lincoln / thegirlhoodtheory / richard siken

Yizheng Ke

— Jeanette Winterson, from “Written on the Body”

— Clarice Lispector, trans. by Benjamin Moser, from “The Hour of the Star”