Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin.”

The air is silver and pearl, for the night is liquid with moonlight.

Amy Lowell, Sword Blades and Poppy Seedoriginally published: 1914

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive” defines me. Without obsession, I experience profound emptiness.

Always the second choice...

lauraryder // of age - the frights // damaged goods - the narcissist cookbook // fat funny friend - maddie zahm // black box warning - leanna firestone // cough it out - the front bottoms // mellowmash33 // the ramblings of a lunatic - bears in trees // prologue - chase petra // fiona apple // critical role - sam riegel // conversations with friends - sally rooney // on lonliness - dante émile

You can only get ahead if you start. So this is your friendly reminder to start whatever that you've been ignoring/procrastinating.

01/12/24

Around 5-6 hours of studying today

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

Ahem☠️🤣

The Secret History destroyed my life like what do you mean I can't drink wine and study classical literature and spend the nights in a countryside mansion with piano echoing through the dark halls and break through the confines of humanity in a bacchanal and commit a string of murders and try to escape but eventually kill myself in a blaze of glory, ultimately shattering the lives of the people around me? That I can't escape the cognitive mode of experience and transcend the accident of my moment of being? That I can't lose my self, lose it utterly? What do you mean I can't live without thinking?

RIP Judy Poovey, you would have loved "brat" by Charli xcx.

Salma Deera, "Salt"