lifeinpoetry:

Soaping together
is sacred to us.
Washing each other’s shoulders.

You can fuck
anyone—but with whom can you sit
in water?

— Ilya Kaminsky, from “While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses,” Deaf Republic

arrogantsuggestion:

I am no mans dream girl. No man could ever imagine and create a woman as complex and beautiful as me.

akutsuu:

“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”

— Mary Oliver, from ‘Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?’ (via soracities)

violentwavesofemotion:

“I am permanently damaged. Those wounds will never heal. I am simply trying to make the best of an unpleasant situation.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, from a letter to Nanny Vonnegut written c. April 1977