when carly rae jepsen said “before you came into my life, I missed you so bad” and when bjork said “I miss you but I haven't met you yet” and when florence welch said “I want you so badly, but you could be anyone”

when Soccer Mommy said “forehead kisses break my knees and leave me crawling back to you” when Mitski said “if you need to be mean be mean to me” when Marina said “you like my dad you get on well I’ll send my best regards from Hell” when Banks said “I’d follow you around like a dog that needs water” when PVRIS said “my poor bones rearrange them to fit your mould” when Florence said “till I realized that it was you who held me under”

sorry but they’ve got the richard siken mary oliver franz kafka mitski james baldwin lorde ada limón moonlight ocean vuong susan sontag brokeback mountain florence and the machine louise glück the handmaiden virginia woolf euripides anne carson andrew garfield jenny slate phoebe bridgers holly warburton my own private idaho oscar wilde folklore the song of achilles egon schiele audre lorde anaïs nin frank o’hara félix valloton maurice vladimir nabokov jane austen ursula k le guin peter wever howl’s moving castle rainer maria rilke sappho emily dickinson charlotte ager fyodor dostoeyevsky joseph lorusso marie howe ilya kaminsky emily brontë dead poets society walt whitman donna tartt sandra cisneros leonard cohen wong kar wai john keats black sails benjamin alire sáenz john berger jeanette winterson salman toor clarice lispector warsan shire sue zhao sufjan stevens mahmoud darwish bleachers regina spektor margaret atwood disorder. it’s terminal

When Haruki Murakami said, "Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum - a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself." And when Audrey Hepburn said, "Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."

not to be all [i love you till my breathing stops i love you till you call the cops on me] [it’s rotten work not to me not if it’s you] [i can take care of myself just fine. no. what do you mean no? no] [one word from you and i would jump off of this ledge i’m on baby] [i will do anything whatever she wants] [is that too much to expect? that i would name the stars for you?] [you want to die for love you always have] [love for you is not like the usual romantic love. it’s like a religion. it’s terrifying] but i want a love full of devotion

when taylor swift wrote "I just realised everything I have is someday gonna be gone. so here I am in my new apartment in a big city, they just dropped me off. it's so much colder than I thought it would be, so I tuck myself in turn my night light on. wish I'd never grown up, wish I'd never grown up. I don't wanna grow up."

when jenny slate said "there will always be a ribbon of loneliness running through who i am" and emily dickinson said "it might be lonelier without the loneliness" and mitski said "my god i'm so lonely so i open the window to hear sounds of people" and when richard siken said "you will always be alone and then you will die"