Crunch

Live like you’re going to die, because you are.

I have to I have to I have to believe

that I can change again again again

“We find comfort only in another beauty, in others’ music, in the poetry of others. Salvation lies with others, though solitude may taste like opium. Other people aren’t hell if you glimpse them at dawn, when their brows are clean, rinsed by dreams.”

— Adam Zagajewski, Another Beauty, trans. Clare Cavanagh

“When we held hands, it felt different. The warmth washed away all my worries.”

*80s pop playing as I lay dead in the middle of the woods*

not wanting to be vulnerable is a clear sign you need to be, whether that be with another or with yourself

I love saying “of course” instead of “you’re welcome,” like of course I’m helping you that’s what I do, you were foolish to even consider an alternate dimension in which I’m not helping you. you idiot. you absolute buffoon.

love + vulnerability:

1. “I don’t want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.” (georges bataille, from ‘my mother’)

2. “Finally, in a low whisper, he said, “I think I might be a terrible person.” For a split second I believe him - I thought he was about to confess to a crime, maybe murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.“ (miranda july, from ‘the first bad man’)

3. “I also learned the word dendrochronology—analyzing the patterns of tree rings to know everything that has ever happened to a tree. This is how I love you. I am peeling back my skin, layer by layer, so you will finally know everything inside me.” (roxanne gay, from ‘strange gods’)