Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.
—(via alldopeeverything)
(Source: redvelvetsex, via sex-death-rebirth)
Being born a woman is an awful tragedy. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording —all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
—Sylvia Plath (via mentalflosss)
(Source: raccoonwounds, via mentalflosss)
Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all culture is a kind of con game, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is one which causes people to start questioning the rules of the game.
—Terence McKenna (via psychedelic-tea)
(Source: f1ndyourcenter, via patternsinchaos)
Nothing beats this kind of intimacy, when it’s about 3am and it feels like you’re the only two people in the world. There are no words or intentions, you’re just happy lying next to each other knowing that you never want to do this with anyone else. Just to consider that you’re each, essentially, a bag of bones and organs and muscles, and yet you’re both so much more than that because you’ve found each other and suddenly everything makes so much sense.
(Source: annieherweg, via -perfectnightmares)
(via strangersinastrangeland)
(Source: makemestfu, via patternsinchaos)
I love unmade beds. I love when people are drunk and crying and cannot be anything but honest in that moment. I love the look in people’s eyes when they realize they’re in love. I love the way people look when they first wake up and they’ve forgotten their surroundings. I love the gasp people take when their favorite character dies. I love when people close their eyes and drift to somewhere in the clouds. I fall in love with people and their honest moments all the time. I fall in love with their breakdowns and their smeared makeup and their daydreams. Honesty is just too beautiful to ever put into words.
—(via stymshaws)
(Source: freckledhips, via alicechristinaxoxo)
my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools
in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and execute strides of cobalt
nevertheless i
feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact
myself
Hereupon helpless i utter lilac shreiks and scarlet bellowings.
—e.e. cummings (via mirroir)
(Source: petrichour, via mirroir)
It was best to get the sun on my neck and then dream and doze and try not to think of rent and food and America and responsibility. Whether I was a genius or not did not so much concern me as the fact that I simply did not want a part of anything. The animal-drive and energy of my fellow man amazed me: that a man could change tires all day long or drive an ice cream truck or run for Congress or cut into a man’s guts in surgery or murder, this was all beyond me. I did not want to begin. I still don’t. Any day that I could cheat away from this system of living seemed a good victory for me. I drank wine and slept in the parks and starved. Suicide was my biggest weapon. The thought of it gave me some peace; the thought that the cage was not entirely closed actually gave me some small strength to linger within the cage.
—Charles Bukowski, “A Rambling Essay on the Poetics and the Bleeding Life Written While Drinking a Six-Pack (Tall)”, Portions from A Wine Stained Notebook (via racykacie)
