feelings i identify with

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

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

— SAGG Napoli

I am blessed in the insistency.

Not here for love

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

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

Attention Required! | Cloudflare

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”

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 have an anxious brain, so I find it tricky to differentiate between instinct and anxiety."