love
the current state of everyone I love still being here.
Be where you are
“You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from.”
Alex Dobrenko • a bookstore, joan didion, and me
And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
John Steinbeck • Read John Steinbeck's letter of fatherly advice to his son
I fall in love when I want them to fill all my pauses.
Antonia Bentel • How to fall in love
Everyone dreams about being invisible sometimes, no one dreams of being transparent.
let yourself be loved
The most divine relationships constitute a messy, awkward collaboration between two savage souls who dare to ask for more from this world.
Retire Your Inner Lawyer
After a while, growing near each other, trees don’t know which roots are theirs.
Attention Required! | Cloudflare
That it’s intended to keep something out as much as it is keeping something in.
Haley Mlotek • Writer Haley Mlotek on standing by your work – The Creative Independent
I don’t have all the answers, and I get things wrong all the time. But I no longer fight against my nature. My life is filled with love, with deeply loving people, because I care too much. How could I resent that? My capacity to attach to others also my capacity to attach to the world.
— Ava