anna

Just to be clear

I don’t want to get out

without a broken heart.

I intend to leave this life

so shattered

there better be a thousand separate heavens

for all of my separate parts

And none of those parts are going to be wearing the romance from the overpriced vintage rack

That is to say I am not going to get a single speed bike if I can’t make it up the h... See more

Learning is downstream of doing. The order should rarely be reversed. Most real knowledge, knowledge worth attaining, lives in the hands . It must be cultivated gradually, like a garden. Really, it must be grown. Most real knowledge is the result of doing something deliberately for a long time and steadily making small improvements. It requires a s... See more

To start almost anything, you need to know nearly nothing.

Investigating whether things are really as hard as they look. Usually, they aren't. Many things look super hard, prove to be quite easy. But to discover that, an attempt must be made. Effort must come before success.

I had the autonomy to try and the freedom to fail. It became a personal, private project, with all the excitement of secrecy and all the nobility of ownership.

When you are madly in love, the most radical thing you can do is nothing. You shouldn’t care anymore. You have dropped the pen. There is no better story. There is only this, and this is enough. Let the world go on spinning. You, on the other hand, have already arrived.

I want there to be more seconds between the seconds, I want to claw time open, I want to unzip each moment and nestle inside it like Thumbelina in her walnut shell.

When you’re madly in love, you have the revelation that everything that has ever come before that—every insomniac night, every journal entry, every subtle rehearsal of a life you didn’t yet know how to live—was an imitation.