feelings i identify with

because writing is the best means I have of metabolizing my own life

Maria Popova • 18 Life-Learnings From 18 Years of the Marginalian

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.

Paul Venuto • feed updates

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've been a hot mess, and I've been open to miracles anyway.”

at once precise and discursive, friendly and skeptical, direct and elliptical

Attention Required! | Cloudflare

Your capacity for sensitivity and commitment is the best thing about you.
- Ava

to let every day’s path be a mystery instead of a narrow winding road.

Anna Fusco • Let Feathers Ruffle

I am blessed in the insistency.

Not here for love

“To be in, not being in, this was always in me. I never fought against it.”

— SAGG Napoli