wordsnquotes:

“Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.”

Anne Sexton
(via thelovejournals)

coral:

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”

— H.P. Lovecraft (via coral)

coral:

“I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via coral)

prospects:

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”

— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (via coral)