Mieko Kawakami, From 'Heaven'

Cats

He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a Library.” -Jorge Luis Borges ♡

The great dragon migration

Going to the wizard bookstore to pick up the latest scrolls and stopping to pet the kitty that sits in the window right before he turns back into the elderly shopkeeper and I'm stuck awkwardly patting his bald head

how do i get this boy off my mind

tw: burnout vent

ahaha does anyone else find it funny when your family tells everyone about how much you like to read and base everything off of books you loved when you were in middle school so you feel obligated to read so you read like 72 books within the span of three months during the summer before 8th grade and now you're a sophomore in high school and have only brought yourself to read like ten books since then bc you burned yourself out so hard that you lost a literal part of you? cause i think its super funny.

born to scroll through pinterest

forced to study