She's My Girlfriend, She's My Nemesis, I Want To Make Out With Her, I Have To Fight Her, I Must Make

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

you are so polite with your sadness, you don't want to ruin this for anyone

💙 Sometimes. I used to be very messy, still can be.

If you persevere, in time you will have an entirely different problem – not that life is meaningless, but rather that life has almost too much meaning. As the scales fall from your eyes the world rushes into focus, presenting itself with a kind of vibrational eloquence that can, at first, be almost overwhelming. Everything shimmers, everything clarifies, everything wrestles for your attention. Trees feel super-real, their roots plunged into the earth, their branches stretching to the sky, birds are flesh and blood souls, fragile with life, the sky unfolds and rolls, the ocean crashes, people fascinate, books are beautiful, children are whirling dynamos of chaos, dogs bark and cats meow, flowers shout, your neighbour glows, and God runs like a helix through all things. The world awaits you, humming with meaning. You are alive with potential. You are not dead.

— Nick Cave on getting clean, Red Hand Files #258

Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Jonathan Safran Foer

Madeline Miller, Circe

Richard Siken, Crush

“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.”

Edith Wharton

Slavoj Žižek

Richard Siken, Crush

“Mad, but beautifully mad, hypnotised by the gaze of the self into self,”

— Carolyn Kizer, from Cool, Calm & Collected: Poems; “Hera, Hung from the Sky,”

“In My Place”. Amandine Guihard by Noémi Ottilia Szabo for Blanc Magazine April 2020

“But even when I am afraid, I keep on trusting you.”

— Psalm 56:3

you’ll hear me howling outside your door

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”

— Steve Maraboli

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