"... Every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning."
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
If courage isn’t the absence of fear but doing the right thing regardless of it, maybe confidence isn’t the absence of insecurity but knowing you have real worth despite it
“flowers and mirror” - abbott fuller graves
“I want you to be the very best version of yourself that you can be.”
“What if this is the best version?”
Lady Bird (2017) dir. Greta Gerwig
Nike: Dunk Low SB ’StrangeLove’ Valentine’s Day (2020)
Evgenia Belyakova (Russian, *1980)
thinking about the friendships that just dissipate and the unresolved grief that comes with that
Some cool ladies
Virginia Woolf, The Years
“ أركضُ حراً هكذا، بِلا أصدقاء أو قِصة حُب أو أملّ.”
— لقمان ديركي