#prosetober

will you love me if i hold this? will this be worth it in the end? if i promise to forgive you without an ounce of resentment, will you let me keep the blade?

17. “facing the sunshine” (e. m. forster) / 18. “terror made me cruel” (emily brontë) / 19. “heroic grief” (nikos kazantzakis) / 20. “trying to awake” (james joyce)

Prosetober by @drawingdawnart

29. “over the roofs of the world” (walt whitman) / 30. “you’re so alive” (rainbow rowell) / 31. “into that darkness peering” (edgar allen poe)

9. “and that they dance” (mary oliver) / 10. “even if it burns” (tracy k smith) / 11. “death and ambition, even love” (raymond carver) / 12. “and what of the dead” (anne sexton)

21. “the mysterious starry night” (clarissa pinkola estes) / 22. “famished saints” (d. l. smith) / 23. “universe next door” (e. e. cummings) / 24. “the dark and dirt” (ellis nightengale)

1. “it was so human” (kurt vonnegut) / 2. “under her raincoat” (ada limòn) / 3. “the greatest grief” (madeline miller) / 4. “i was joan, i was lazarus” (louise glück)

13. “the fearless flight” (oscar wilde) / 14. “you want to die for love” (richard siken) / 15. “in vain i have struggled” (jane austen) / 16. “we beat on” (f. scott fitzgerald)