one liners
"What information, if we had it, would make this decision easy?"
Then: "What's the quickest way we can get that information?"
(Via Matt Lerner)
Embarassment is an underexplored emotion. Go out there and make a fool of yourself. - Austin Butler’s friend lol
They both started laughing in that desperate high-pitched way people laugh when their hearts are broken.
Louise Erdrich • The Night Watchman: A Novel

i’m combing through the braids of lies
loml ts
She steps farther into the room, hands raised like she’s trying to calm a deranged bear. It’s me. I am the deranged bear.
B.K. Borison • Business Casual (Lovelight Book 4)
if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
daisy.substack.com“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” -Kurt Vonnegut