“A heart, closing. Nevertheless, everyone needs a place. It shouldn’t be inside of someone else.” — Richard Siken, Details of the Woods

"Pray the lord may he take your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."

too fast, afraid to combust &

afraid I won’t.

“Alone. That’s the only way. [Alone]” — Virginia Woolf, The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf; Selected Diaries

“I? I walk alone;” —Sylvia Plath, Soliloquy of the Solipsist

“Now I know: I’m alone. I and my freedom that I don’t know how to use. Great responsibility of solitude. Whoever isn’t lost doesn’t know freedom and love it. As for me, I own up to my solitude that sometimes falls into ecstasy as before fireworks. I am alone and must live a certain intimate glory that in solitude can become pain. And the pain, silence.” —Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Each of us has heaven and hell in him."

this looks like an ancient god and i feel like i shouldn’t be seeing this.

"Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."