“You know how every once in a while you do something and the little voice inside says ‘There. That’s it. That’s why you’re here’ … and you get a warm glow in your heart because you know it’s true? Do more of that.”
— Jacob Nordby
Katherine Larson, from Radial Symmetry; “Gardens in Tunisia”
[Text ID: “There are days that walk through me / and I cannot hold them.”]
Alice Notley, from In the Pines
[Text ID: “I will search for you across heaven,”]
“The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon.”
— Warsan Shire
“Who you were, who you are, and who you will be are three different people.”
— Unknown
“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
— Sigmund Freud
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
“I owe myself the biggest apology for putting up with what I didn’t deserve.”
— Unknown