At this age I’m only interested in consistency, stability, respect and loyalty.

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”

— Khaled Hosseini

ALT

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude [ID in alt text]

Chile, 1939

JOHN SWOPE

“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice

Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

— Fuck you (affectionate)

Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from Maria Nephele: A Poem in Two Voices; "The Poet's Song"

I might look okay on the outside but on the inside, I want to go on a library date

the more black u wear the more powerful you look