To The Bone, Dorothy Allison

To the Bone, Dorothy Allison 

[ID: That summer I did not go crazy / but I wore / very close / very close / to the bone.]

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

bloody outfits from hannibal (NBC)

I felt this sudden surge of tenderness for him right then, a feeling so rare in me (...) it felt like I was being displaced by it.

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

“Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence.”

— The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from This Way to The Sugar: Poems; "My First"

[Text ID: I won't tell you how I survived the wreckage. / This story doesn't leave the ocean floor.]