feelings i identify with
The gift of grief is a well-honed bullshit radar.There are many things you can fake or hide, including from yourself, but hitting rock bottom blows everything wide open.
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because writing is the best means I have of metabolizing my own life
Maria Popova • 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian
“To be in, not being in, this was always in me. I never fought against it.”
— SAGG Napoli
to let every day’s path be a mystery instead of a narrow winding road.
Anna Fusco • Let Feathers Ruffle
That is what these characters consistently struggle with: they don’t want to make themselves legible, or they desperately want to but can’t.
Sally Rooney: “We’re trapped in a cultural moment”
Your capacity for sensitivity and commitment is the best thing about you.
- Ava
You are someone who needs faith more than you need bulletproof, long-term plans.
Heather Havrilesky • 'Why Did No One Tell Me That Life Is So Limited?'
And my birthday gift to myself is the certainty that I have what it takes to start over if I need to.
Aisha Joshi • Why hot girls cry on their birthday
I want to write every day and read books and to be in love and live near all my friends and work on what I know to be true and good. For me, that’s salvation—that’s ambition.