Franz Kafka, Letters To Friends, Family, And Editors

Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café

A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

the classic trope of "what if you went to a town and it was weird" never fails

when susan sontag wrote “I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it”

three hearts that beat as one | old hollywood throuples anyone???

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers who love their daughters dearly despite not liking them all that much. My mother has never liked me as a person (or at least, not since I’ve become the person I currently am) - my personality is in many ways at odds with her’s. Where she is strategic and deliberate I am impulsive and passionate. We are both incredibly emotional but in distinct and clashing ways. That said, my mother has showed up as my greatest ally when it’s mattered and has given me all that I need to thrive. She may not particularly enjoy my presence - and, quite frankly, may never have hoped for a daughter like me - but she’s stuck by me regardless. I think that’s an incredibly pure form of love - endurance and tolerance in the face of contradiction and misunderstanding.

“Be patient when things are not going right. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.”

— Unknown

Margaret Atwood, from The Selected Poems of Margaret Atwood; "She Considers Evading Him,"

Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness