booksqouted:

“Every time you show your feelings, you apologize. Have you ever had an emotion in your life that you weren’t ashamed of?”

— R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet

violentwavesofemotion:

“I am tired of everything I have ever desired.”

— Zeb-un-Nissa, tr. by Paul Smith, from “Makhfi: A Selection of Poems,”