“I Have Clawed My Way To Okay And It Will Just Have To Do For Now.”

Marie Howe, from “Watching Television”, What the Living Do

But never have I been a calm blue sea. I have always been a storm.

Stevie Nicks, Storms (via music-and-quotes)

At the end of a relationship, it is the one who is not in love that makes the tender speeches.

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love (via the-book-diaries)

“Once, a white girl was kidnapped & that’s the Trojan war. Later, up the block, Troy got shot & that was Tuesday. Are we not worthy of a city of ash?”

— Danez Smith, “Not An Elegy for Mike Brown”

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”

— Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (via the-book-diaries)

— Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay”, from Glass, Irony and God

Looking for the Stranger by Alice Kaplan

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Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451 (via the-book-diaries)

“I most always smile out of spite. I sometimes stay alive out of spite.”

— Dave Harris, "To The Extent X Body Including Its Fists Constitute ‘Weapons’“

March 29, 1966 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977