― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

It’s weird to grow up in a family where you know you’re loved but you don’t feel loved. And then later in adulthood you understand how almost impossible it seems to cross that distance and let yourself experience closeness, how otherworldly love feels now and how love feels unbearable at times. You flinch when someone tries to wholeheartedly love you. And over and over you see so clearly how you cannot be loved unless it's from afar and love is mixed with that familiar sensation of distance and coldness.

Andrea Gibson, "DEPRESSION [VERB]", Lord of the Butterflies

Artists need to lay their soul bare for the world to mock

That must be painful

October, Louise Glück

fake idgafer, i saw you yearning

Guillaume Apollinaire, from Aubade (tr. by Donald Revell); Alcools: Poems, 1913

i’m okay with change and i’m fine if things are no longer the same i embrace change

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

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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