Just a writer in the south

lovely-abeille

catalog of unabashed gratitude, ross gay // ? // trista mateer // ? // a little life, hanya yanagihara // herakles, euripides // ? // langston hughes // these violent delights, micah nemerever // lunch poems, frank o'hara

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Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”

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from In the House With No Doors by Sarah Kay

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There is a Japanese word to describe the sense a person has upon meeting another person that future love between them is inevitable. This is not the same as love at first sight. For example, your smell was never unfamiliar.

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'

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i love you but i don't love you. i love you forever, you still occupy space in my heart, but that doesn't mean i have to acknowledge it. (to that one person)

Caitlyn Siehl / in a dream you saw a way to survive by Clementine von Radics / @/inanotherunivrse on tumblr / pinterest / pinterest / unknown / holy ground by taylor swift / "MY NAME" (2021) / Letters of Sylvia Plath / foolish one by taylor swift

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Ilya Kaminsky, from "Dancing in Odessa"

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@chloeinletters on instagram

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"I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood here next to you here like this?"

Screengrab from the movie "Call Me by Your Name." A young man sits on a black chair holding an old, green telephone up to his ear. The caption reads: "I remember everything."

" 'In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is / the same: nho. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Con nho me / khong? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me? // I miss you more than I remember you.' // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel"

"And everyone around me's changed / But the garden that you planted remains / I think about you / Maybe more than I should"

"When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?"

" 'I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes' "

"It's your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes; let them remain ours. I hope I haunt you."

Screengrab from the move "The Truman Show." A man wearing a yellow sweater and gray pants sits on the coast. A large, full moon is visible in the left of the sky.

"I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. / Listen to me-I am your echo. / I would rather break the world than lose you."

on memory and loss

Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood / Call Me by Your Name (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Sea Wolf The Garden That You Planted / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Vladimir Nabokov / Theodore Roethke Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke / The Truman Show (1998) dir. Peter Weir / Amal El-Mohtar This is How You Lose the Time War