Zoe Freling
@illgiveuthesun
Zoe Freling
You’re listening to the version of me that exists in your mind, not to the person actually speaking
i don’t think a lot of friends know me that well
Complicated Friendships and Unknown/ Understood
“You’re listening to the version of me that exists in your mind, not to the person actually speaking.”
Versiones idealizadas de las personas que no nos dejan ver a la persona real.
“I knew that it was cruel to be so optimistic, but, in my solitude, I couldn't resist the urge and spent entire days basking in idiotic fantasies, sometimes verging on prayer.”
―
Mieko Kawakami,
Heaven
―
Mieko Kawakami,
Heaven
A quote from Heaven
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rutina!!
This is how love works—you may begin for pure reasons, or egocentric and performative reasons, but in the end it has to be earnest. Our lives are short. We should read what we love and spend time with those we love. And if the world is full of writers who can model a kind of “reverse poptimism,” an unfeigned enthusiasm for the greatest works—then,... See more