ENGLISH-ROSES
I am a dreamer, an old soul trapped in a young body. I talk to the stars and send letters to the moon. I miss things I never had, I want to leave for distant lands to never come back.
"... What we have here is a dreamer. Someone completely out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she would fly."
— The Virgin Suicides
“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”
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Warsan Shire
“(…) melancholy infinite as the forest, endless as these long nights of winter (…)”
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Angela Carter, from The Company Of Wolves in “The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories”
Giselle
World Ballet, 1958
“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
— White Nights, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
healing my inner young girl is such heart wrenching back breaking work and no one is more worthy of it than her
“I thought, it’s a shame that we have to live, but it’s a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I’d had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
ALTEmily Brontë, The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë
can't a girl just be a little melancholic
Louise Glück, from "Persephone the Wanderer", Averno
…thinking about it over and over, like a cat watching the rain fall…
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
n. a relationship or friendship that you can’t get out of your head, which you thought had faded long ago but is still somehow alive and unfinished, like an abandoned campsite whose smoldering embers still have the power to start a forest fire.