my brain is like, “i know a place” then takes me into a four day depression
“He writes on his forehead: MADE IN RUINS and feels that the word “ruins” is enough to refer to what has happened or what remains.”
— Dunya Mikhail, from ‘The Chaldean’s Ruins’, The War Works Hard (trans. Elizabeth Winslow)
“It is unfair of me to ask for more than you can give me but it’s unfair of you to expect me to settle for less than I deserve.”
— Things I realized when I learned to love myself, part XI
Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from “Let Us Believe in the Dawn of the Cold Season”, Sin
STOP! Let the little penguin cross your dash he has places to go.
I just sat here and waited for a pixel penguin to waddle across my screen, AND I WOULD DO IT AGAIN
🥺🥺💖💖
