feelings i identify with
I am blessed in the insistency.
Not here for love
at once precise and discursive, friendly and skeptical, direct and elliptical
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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.