I Recognize Song Of Achilles When I See It

man the bravest shit you can do in this world is love indefinitely

Albert Camus, letters to María Casares.

It’s weird to grow up in a family where you know you’re loved but you don’t feel loved. And then later in adulthood you understand how almost impossible it seems to cross that distance and let yourself experience closeness, how otherworldly love feels now and how love feels unbearable at times. You flinch when someone tries to wholeheartedly love you. And over and over you see so clearly how you cannot be loved unless it's from afar and love is mixed with that familiar sensation of distance and coldness.

Alice Notley / Oscar wilde / Sarah Kane / Anne Sexton

are you free tonight

i woul do anything to be free

youve died a thousand times before who caaares just climb out of this grave again & again &agaian & agaian & again & again & aga

does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

tenderness is in the hands

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dude you should have been at the club last night it was insane. the dj was playing the lament and funeral of hector from the iliad and everyone was beating their breasts and tearing open their garments. at the end we all built up a funeral pyre in the middle of the dance floor and set it aflame. we were all feeling the inherent human connection through millennia old poetry, it was wild