violentwavesofemotion:

“Dear heart, I am so sorry that things are bad. I know how terrible such times are when one moves all the day between hope and despair and cannot kill hope and yet wants to be without it.”

— Iris Murdoch, from a letter to Michael Oakeshott written c. January 1959

kxowledge:

Sophocles, Philoctetes

90sgrl:

my hidden talents include romanticising everything, oversharing, crying, and overthinking