Soon, I Will Buy Some Books And Read Them. In The Evening, I Will Go To The Movies, And At Night, I Will

If your theme doesn’t scare you a little, it’s not deep enough.

Look, surface-level themes are cute and all “love conquers all,” “good always wins,” “believe in yourself”...but they don’t hit the jugular. The best themes crack you open. They dig into the uncomfortable, unresolved questions you’ve been avoiding. 

Why do we stay loyal to people who hurt us?

Is forgiveness selfish or selfless?

What does it mean to feel safe in your own skin?

If you’re writing something that makes you squirm a little, like something you wouldn’t casually bring up at brunch—that’s probably the real story you need to tell. And that’s also the story your readers need to hear. Vulnerability isn't a weakness; it's the damn foundation.

If hurting me does not hurt you, you don’t love me. You’re using me.

k.b // by jerry flowers jr

“Part of Consequently being humans is that we all have sides we never want to reveal even to our own selves, deep dark, terrible, ugly sides. Solitary parts that only we know about”

—ayman abdinasir

stay safe because i like being alive at the same time as you.

Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me

Mary Oliver, from a poem titled "The Crows," featured in New & Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

— David Cronenberg, Consumed