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we all just forgot what life is supposed to be for. People haven’t adjusted.”
Hank Green • A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls Book 2)
Whatever disappointing experiences we have lived through in love, we tend to console ourselves with a highly reasonable-sounding thought: that our problems to date have resided not with our expectations, but with the people they were directed towards. It feels profoundly implausible that the difficulties might be structural, might lie with relation
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafés on the Strand; it was lost by those who wished the past were present, and loathed by those who wished the present past.
Sarah Perry • The Essex Serpent
By Eileen Myles
I am always hungry
& wanting to have
sex. This is a fact.
If you get right
down to it the new
unprocessed peanut
butter is no damn
good & you should
buy it in a jar as
always in the
largest supermarket
you know. And
I am an enemy
of change, as
you know. All
the things I
embrace as new
are in
fact old things,
re-released: swimming,
t
... See moreHis troublesome soul lingered on every street . . . I kept telling his memory to piss the fuck off but it wouldn’t. Grief is a bastard. If I’d have stayed any longer, I’d have hated humanity.
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
we have individually and collectively lost our way because we love our possessions too much. That’s why the world is awful.
The School of Life • A Simpler Life: A guide to greater serenity, ease and clarity
what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.