Natalie Díaz, From “Skin-Light”, Postcolonial Love Poem

i don’t know. i’m barely a person. i just want to be kind and hold someone’s hand. eat an ice cream cone. stare at the lake. feel the sun on my skin. lay in the grass. run through a sprinkler. it’s so easy to forget life is supposed to feel like a deep breath and not a gasp

Maggie Smith, from “Slipper”, Goldenrod

Eid Mubarak, I love you all, may we witness a free Palestine within our lifetimes inshallah

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, Taylor Byas

Addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure. A good life is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. Btw

betraying someone who trusts them deeply is one of the sexiest things a character can do its unparalleled. cause either the relationship is irrevocably changed and said character is completely at fault (guilt complex, hot) or it isnt and then both sides have to deal with the fact that they care about each other enough to overlook the betrayal (unceasing devotion, also hot)

I’m addicted to learning because the right information can change your life.

Saints of Little Faith, Megan Pinto

Kaveh Akbar, from "An Apology," in Calling a Wolf a Wolf

donating my heavily annotated copy of house of leaves to the local library so that the person reading it gets a 5th layer of narrative to be confused by