“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.”
— Nicole Krauss
by David Drake
Albert Camus
“The most important day is the day you decide you’re good enough for you. It’s the day you set yourself free.”
— Brittany Josephina
You were suspicious of their feelings because you had no reason to love yourself—not your body, not your mind. You rejected so much gentleness. What were you looking for?
Carmen Maria Machado, from In the Dream House: A Memoir
Alice Notley, from In the Pines
[Text ID: “I will search for you across heaven,”]