#love excerpts

[longnightsandsambuca]

In another timeline, we would have been good for each other, and it would have been magical. But in this timeline, you’re just the man who broke my heart.

[mossehunter]

— Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You Were”

[lilliesand-valleys]

[fairydrowning]

– Noor Unnahar, Instagram account "noor_unnahar"

[TEXT ID: / [Lemons] / My father's mother loved lemons. Years after her passing, / we run out of everything, but never / lemons. / Nothing else shelters grief / better than memory. / It's my father way of saying, / even in your absence, you will be / cared by me. / END ID]

[shisasan]

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

[maryqos]

coco mellors, cleopatra and frankenstein.

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

Miranda July, The First Bad Man

[lucidloving]

Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence // Ada Limón, "Lies About Sea Creatures" // Sherita Walker // @itsbaditsgood // Richard Siken, "I Had a Dream About You" // Richard Siken, "You Are Jeff" (8) // Richard Siken, "Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out" // @_demarmol on Instagram // Anne Sexton, "The Touch"

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to Maria Casarès written in August 1948

[sunshinesere]

Emily Henry / People We Meet On Vacation

[longnightsandsambuca]

I had a dream about you last night. You were there, and I was happy. Then I woke up and realised it has been three years since you left. Three years, and you still haunt me. When will the feeling of betrayal leave? The feeling of regret? Of what could have been? Of losing the love of my life? - C. H.

[mroddmod]

what cipher has done to my hands

[feral-ballad]

Kim Addonizio, from Lucifer at the Starlite: Poems; “You with the crack running through you”

[dr4gme]

About wocwog HJ. I love him. He's so raw, and there's so much pain and rage.

[fairydrowning]

Quote to Owner / Somewhere, There's a Party by Holly Warburton / "The Prophet" Book by Khalil Gibran / Quote to Owner / Spirit Hold by Holly Warburton / "Freak" Book by Jonathan Harnisch