Christi Darling
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Christi Darling
Given two works of artistic majesty, otherwise weighted equally, we will give greater acclaim to the one who did it first. It doesn’t matter what you create. It matters what you create before anyone else. “So it’s not the beauty itself we admire. It’s not the force of intellect. It’s not invention, aesthetics, or capacity itself. The greatest talen
... See moreBrandon Sanderson • The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1)
Please remember that rest is not Self Care™ it is a basic necessity No one can drink from an empty well
Lyndsay Rush • A Bit Much: Poems
nobody dies from lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.
Margaret Atwood • The Handmaid's Tale
To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”
Brandon Sanderson • The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1)
“If someone refuses to accept what’s plainly obvious, it’s not easy to find an argument that will make him change his mind. [2] This isn’t due to his strength, nor to the weakness of his would-be instructor, but once someone turns to stone because he’s cornered, how can one hope to get through to him with rational argument?
Epictetus • The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, & Fragments
‘And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of e
... See moreBrandon Sanderson • The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1)
“Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in
... See moreJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu • Carmilla
Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn’t really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn’t about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it’s about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thi
... See moreMargaret Atwood • The Handmaid's Tale
Of brains (if brains they had) he them beguiled, And turn’d a nation’s shallow joy to gloom.