in your 20s you must rediscover the joys of arts and crafts to stave off spiritual decay

they should invent a mother who is normal and says normal things and has normal interactions with her child

getting older as a kid is like yippee!! wahoo yay!! but then immediately as u enter ur early twenties ur like whoa lol hold on wait wait hold upa minute stop

loving cuts

— Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

Gillian Flynn, from Sharp Objects

holding my own face in my own hands and screaming “there is no connection without an open heart! you must be brave! you must be honest! you must be true!” in the mirror

i keep mourning a life i have never lived

Gwen Benaway, from “ Boys” Holy Wind

Bear eating marshmallow, Yellowstone National Park, 1967.

Mary Oliver, from “We Should Be Well Prepared”, Red Bird

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980