“We Are Only Here Today Not Because What Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Stronger, But Because What Does

Love and Leashes (2022) dir. Hyeon-jin Park

— tell me about hope

— It’s looking at a seed and seeing a tree

via museyumm

some lines from winnie the pooh that have been devastating me emotionally since 2003:

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh!” he whispered. “Yes, Piglet?” “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. “I just wanted to be sure of you.”

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?”

“What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh.

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself? “What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?” “I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.

“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds’ End (via the-book-diaries)

Ilya Kaminsky, "Letters", You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”

— Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil (via the-book-diaries)

“For only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can’t forgive themselves.”

— Paul Auster, Man in the Dark

“Life just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned