I Can't Make You Understand. I Can't Make Anyone Understand What Is Happening Inside Me. I Can't Even

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

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Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

““You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.””

— Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (via hplyrikz)

Paul Cézanne - Pyramid of Skulls (1898-1900)

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.

(via minuty)

“I know you, and stare at you in silence.”

— Arthur Rimbaud, from ‘Flowerbeds of Amaranths’

I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong.

— Haruki Murakami

“And so it seems that I must always write you letters that I can never send.”

— Sylvia Plath

Sanctuary by Daniel Adams