Lafrada - Laura

Reggia di Caserta - Italy, Caserta

“This is why people touch. Sometimes words are just not enough.”

— Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

Andrea Gibson

Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (trans. Richard Howard) [transcript in ALT]

“Nothing is quite as beautiful as someone who has survived losing everything and still has a tender heart.”

— Unknown

Ottessa Moshfegh, from My Year of Rest and Relaxation

this is so Sirius after James's death

a you-shaped hole in the universe Celia Paul, Ocean Vuong, Owen Gent, Alejandra Pizarnik (trans. Yvette Siegert), Karman Verdi, Edna St Vincent Millay

Joseph Brodsky, translated by Howard Moss, from a poem titled "I Sit By The Window,"