The Classic Trope Of "what If You Went To A Town And It Was Weird" Never Fails

embarrassment has good bones

Don’t sabotage your peace because chaos is familiar

“She remembered who she was and the game changed.”

— Lalah Deliah

Via @danacea at Bluesky.

My latest Guardian Books cartoon.

“When you can tell your story and it doesn’t make you cry, that’s when you know you’ve healed.”

— Unknown

Naomi Shihab Nye, from You & Yours: Poems; "The Sweet Arab, The Dangerous Arab," originally published in 2005

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

— André Gide, Autumn Leaves

i think ultimately you do really have to kill that part of your brain that vividly imagines how you would redo parts of your life.

Did you ever have a great idea for a Story, but knew that it was far beyond your skill level? What did you do?

That was how I felt about The Graveyard Book. So I wrote and wrote, determined that one day I would be a good enough writer to write that book. And nineteen years later I started it, and twenty one years later I finished it.