
…it’s Christmas Eve again
and old ghosts come back home.
I’m sitting by the Christmas tree
wondering where did we go wrong.
— Sandra Cisneros, from “One Last Poem for Richard” featured in My Wicked Ways (via watchoutforintellect)
(via girlaportrait)
When you are present, I fly from you. / When you are absent, I find you. / In the depth of the forests your image pursues me…
— Jean Baptiste Racine, tr. by Ted Hughes, from Phèdre: A Play (via violentwavesofemotion)
Why am I here?” she thought helplessly and at once; “Why am I here?
— Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (via sheholdsyoucaptivated)