Girl, aging girl, is haunted by own nothingness & devours views from windows (stories, movies, overheard talk & sights in the street, pictures in newspapers, etc.) with continuous feeling she is ‘just about’, miraculously, to come into her own – her own life. Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via alwaysalwayslolita)

Being guarded is fine. Taking calculated risks is fine. But when you have been doing it for too long, you no longer get anywhere new. At some point you have to break your rules, the rules that have kept you safe all your life. And make new ones that will make you alive. far-far-awayy 

I broke your heart. Now barefoot I tread on shards. Vera Pavlova, “I broke your heart” trans. Steven Seymour. featured in If There is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems (via watchoutforintellect)