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head not empty, head full of countless scenarios that will never happen

head not empty, head full of countless scenarios that will never happen
musings on longing
“biggest lesson: if you feel drained around them they’re not for you”
— Andrew Zaffina
“If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe. The forces thus released in the people can never be held in check, but run their devouring course, destroying the very foundations which it was imagined they would save.”
— James Baldwin, Nothing Personal
“It’s mortifying to be the one who remembers.”
— Ryan O’Connell
— Doris Lessing
“You are a little soul, carrying around a corpse.”
— Epictetus
“You make me dance and drunk without alcohol”
— SUNMI - Heroine
“If you can’t be happy, at least you can be drunk.”
— Rory Gilmore, “Partings,” Gilmore Girls
“at night, against our pillows, we weep our secret tears by day, among the flowers, we hide our breaking hearts…”
— Yu Xuanji, from ‘Sent to a Neighbour Woman Friend’, The Clouds Float North: The Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji (trans. Jiann I. Lin & David Young)
“It’s so beautiful how we find people who can make us feel so happy, even at the times when we don’t believe in happiness at all.”
— Unknown
“Remove yourself from those one-sided friendships where you are the only one putting in the effort.”
— Unknown
“In joy or sadness flowers are our constant friends.”
— Kakuzō Okakura