Kazuo Ishiguro, From “Kazuo Ishiguro, The Art Of Fiction No. 196,” Interviewed By Susannah Hunnewell,

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

me, vibrating out of my skin : hey can I talk to you about this piece of media real quick? I pinky promise I'll be So Normal about it, like there's no reason to be concerned that this will turn into a three hour long monologue. Like I Prommy that I'm not gonna be a freak about it.

— Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

[text ID: Outside it is warm and blue and April.]

— Franz Kafka asking Felice Bauer to marry him (Letters to Felice)

i deal so incredibly well with change!!! my natural reaction to it is just so positive!!!! i really take it in stride!!! i don't even give myself migraines and gastrointestinal issues and night terrors!!!!

everything feels one room over

My body is already an inhospitable environment, there’s no way a friggin baby would be able to survive in it

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra