Nothing more can be scarier than the fact when you realise that your life isn't happening , it is just passing.
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City
Louise Glück
“Some mornings I’m filled with longing, with sadness that has no cause.”
— Lisa Olstein, from “[both the specific remedy and the condition of health]” in The Lost Alphabet (via postmoderniste)
“Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here?”
— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
anglerfish
Death by a thousand cuts
Sophocles’ ELECTRA, in translation by:
George Theodoridis
Ian Johnston
R. C. Jebb
Anne Carson