#yearning quotes

[ariria-writes]

"Some days I find it hard to blame Adam and Eve for the original sin. After all, if it had been you holding the forbidden fruit to my mouth, I would have eaten it too."

-words I can never say, pt 2

[roses-and-thorny-stems]

its a travesty that we were breathing the same air and i couldnt properly appreciate it

[aestheteasteria]

seeking, yearning, reaching hands

[flowrrs4u]

I am good. I am loved.

[the-purvashadha]

"Would you peel an orange for me?"

I would peel a pomegranate for you.

[feral-ballad]

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

[maryqos]

coco mellors, cleopatra and frankenstein.

[star-struck09]

Do you think of me as often as I think of you?

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am tired of making a religion out of my suffering’.

[text id: i am too little, and too much, and never enough.]

[hopelessvalentines]

“i am a restless soul, longing for the rain that never comes.”

[saltair-and-webweaves]

Who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?

you say you don’t want a boyfriend, but you know that’s not true - Charlotte Green/the voice - Anaïs Nin/the unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath/tolerate it - Taylor Swift/the unabridged journals of sylvia plath - Sylvia Plath/the unexpurgated diary of anaïs nin - Anaïs Nin/ @treebloods/@lovebeing-a-girl/@ sanwtch on instagram/ @onlyanothermundane/@tullispink/I am an observer, but not by choice - @fatimaamerbilal/the prophecy - Taylor Swift/criss cross - Lynne Rae Perkins/Vladimir Mayakovsky in a letter to Lili Brik/what I could never confess without some bravado - Emily Palermo/little weirds - Jenny Slate

requested here

[cameliaen]

it ends the same

[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]

Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022

[feral-ballad]

Rafael Alberti, tr. by Ben Belitt, from An Anthology of Spanish Poetry: From the Beginnings to the Present Day, Including Both Spain and Spanish America; "Paradise Lost"

[Text ID: “Across centuries / and the void of a world, / sleepless, I seek you.”]

[icrossedtheline]

why do i love so hard, and why do they never understand?

Elegy for the Four Chambers of My Brother’s Heart by Steven Espada Dawson / Getting Older by Billie Eilish / unknown / pinterest / 5. desperation sits heavy on my tongue by @tullipsink / Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka / Against the Loveless World: A Novel by Susan Abulhawa / I Saw the TV Glow, dir. Jane Schoenbrun / miloo_135 on tiktok