“So, taught by love and sorrow, Jo wrote her little stories, and sent them away to make friends for themselves and her” -Louisa May Alcott “Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rapture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged and a very important part of me had been destroyed- that was my reality, the facts of my life. But on the other side of the facts was who I could be, how I could feel, and as long as I had words for that, stories for that, then I wasn’t lost”- Jeanette Winterson Little Women (2019), dir. Greta Gerwig // Tick, Tick… BOOM! (2021), dir. Lin-Manuel Miranda
spitting image, secondhand eyes
i am haunted by the idea that of all the roy siblings, shiv looks the most like logan. she will never escape her father, because how could she ever? he's right there when she sees herself. they're cut from the same stiff cloth. rotting fruit doesn't fall far from the wormwood tree
anyways SIOBHAN ROY WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE? because i love you completely. happy valentine's day all :') endless thanks to the commissioner of this piece, THE ONE AND ONLY @shivroy, thanks a million
“I lay back in those tiny dusty rooms and let the summer dusk unbutton me.”
— Sarah Winman, Tin Man
All I see below is blue light. Peaceful and eternal. I’m holding my breath until my body throbs as one pulse. I roll over and suck in a deep lungful of warm air. I look up at the starry starry night. The sound of water in and out of my ears, and beyond this human shell, the sound of cicadas fills the night.
— Sarah Winman, Tin Man
People would ask me years ago, “Okay, you’ve done a war movie, you’ve done a shark movie, a UFO movie, you’ve done an adventure movie. What haven’t you done?” And I’ve always said, “A musical.” And no one’s taken it seriously. Well, I hope this time they take it seriously. We couldn’t have done any of this without any of us doing the best work we’ve ever done. God bless all of you. So, thank you for everything. — Steven Spielberg
to quote my bestie and pulitzer prize winner tony kushner “hope isn’t a choice, it’s a moral obligation, an obligation to the cells in your body” and “it is an ethical obligation to look for hope; it is an obligation not to despair.” like god. it is so fucking hard it is harder than anything in the world to wake up and have faith that things will be better and we can change things but it is the only thing we tangibly have and can pass on to other people. idrk where i was going with this but yea
Andrew Garfield hugs Tony Kushner (author, playwright, and screenwriter; "Angels In America") at the end of The Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Awww.. This is so nice and i'm glad he loves everyone he's worked with.
Anis Mojgani, “Here I am,” Songs from Under the River
Silas Denver Melvin, Love as an Act of Merciful Conquer
Li-Young Lee, Mnemonic
Alice Notley, In The Pines
Marina Tsvetaeva
Elle Emerson, Regarding the Röttgen Pietà
Tony Kushner, Angels in America
Mary Oliver, Devotions
Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost
Suzanne Rivecca, Ugly, Bitter and True
Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost
repetition in poetry // part ii
"I'm only asking for strength for my days. Teach me the art of small steps."
1 @soracities || 2, 3 shanna van maurik || 4 winter of artifice by anaïs nin || 5 hermann hesse, in an excerpt from hermann hesse on little joys, breaking the trance of busyness, and the most important habit for living with presence, the marginalian || 6 café terrace at night (place du forum, arles), Vincent van Gogh || 7 oamul lu || 8 leaves, lloyd Schwartz || 8 tony kushner, angels in america || 10 dead poets society || 11 a prayer, antoine de saint-exupéry
i truly mean it when i say these two need to be in the same room more often. each of their line deliveries is just them straight up pelting words at each other it's unbelievable
why dont you read angels in america to remind yourself that life is a gift & you should always aspire to have more of it & maybe youll calm down







