I love you. Infinitely and inexpressively. I've woken up in the middle of the night and here I am writing this. My love, my happiness.
— Vladimir Nabokov, from "Letters to Vera".
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The Mountain Goats, “Heel Turn 2” // Topaz Winters, “battlefield” // Lilith Kerr (me) // The Mountain Goats, “This Year” // e.e. cummings // Tumblr user @girlroach // Angus & Julia Stone, “Make it Out Alive” // Gang of Youths, “Achilles Come Down” // Gloria Gaynor, “I Will Survive” // Mary Oliver // Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” // Richard Siken, “Snow and Dirty Rain” // Lilith Kerr (me) // Lilith Kerr (me), “rebirth” from unloving the knife (2023) // Gwendolyn Brooks, “To the Young Who Want to Die” // Lilith Kerr (me again; sorry, I was running out of material lmao) // Tumblr user @daisies-on-a-cup // The Mountain Goats, “Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1”
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And sometimes it hits me, how deeply you cut me. The things you stole from me. The behaviors you left in me. I hate what you created, I hate what you did to me.
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I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.
— Catherine Breillat
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You have always approached
everything terrible trustfully.
You have wanted to pet every
monster.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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i love little photos like these that pop up on my pinterest feed. they’re called “hopecore” i think
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i am homesick all the time, but I do not know where home is. but am just a stranger to these lands and souls. haunted in my thoughts alone by the memory of a home i can never return to.
nocturne, excerpts from my journal
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