— Anne Carson, from “Red Doc>.”
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”
— Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959
“The strongest people are the ones who are still kind even after the world tore them a part.”
— Raven Emotion
“I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.”
— Michael Cunningham, The Hours
shi-saa
𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟸𝟼, 𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹
[ID: May 26. momentary confusion, helplessness, hopelessness, unfathomable abyss, nothing but abyss; END ID]
Source: shi-saa
She tried to summon the mood of the dream, which wasn’t hard, in fact: it clung to her mind like a delicate perfume.
Philip Pullman, from ‘The Secret Commonwealth’






