Saints Of Little Faith, Megan Pinto

Instructions for the Lovers, Dawn Lundy Martin

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

“To try to not be more interesting but be more interested” literally changed my life perspective btw

Kaveh Akbar, from “ Pilgrim Bell”, Pilgrim Bell

you have to let yourself be a weird woman or you will not survive

do it scared do it stupid do it badly whatever it is that's worth doing, that's worth anything at all, we do it. be it scared be it stupid be it badly. the sincerity remains the same.

the worst part of "you'll understand when you're older" is that you really do understand when you're older

“He looks through the wound of my life like it’s light. So I let him.”

— Omotara James, from “Pier 52”

— fatima aamer bilal; coffin heart? bury me.

oooohhhh ok. the more you deny yourself the more you lose yourself