"You swallowed everything, like distance.
Like the sea, like time."
- Pablo Neruda; “A Song of Despair”(via babagoogoosh)
(via passade)
"Almost from birth she had felt its weight, a gravitational pull that invited her to her grave. Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own."
- Helen Oyeyemi; “Mr. Fox” (via lifeinpoetry)
(Source: oneseashell, via passade)
"It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat
but often the shadow seems more real than the body."
- Tomas Tranströmer, from “After a Death,” trans. Robert Bly (via proustitute)
(via passade)
"A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in―what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet, and above him the stars."
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (via seols)
(Source: theparadoxbox, via passade)
"Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which one fits best?"
- Sylvia Plath (via pastelis)
(Source: larmoyante, via passade)
"His skin
is a brutally beautiful
handwritten letter
from the sun."
- Buddy Wakefield, from “Human the death dance” (via diluvie)
(Source: the-final-sentence, via passade)
"I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me."
- Sylvia Plath (via ponceau)
(Source: pulpnonficton, via passade)
