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“Ten thousand dollars for my fashion style to the boy who wears running shoes everywhere. Where are you even going? Why are you always running there?”

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FROM THE VAULT! Alex Dang, “Everything Must Go”

Performing at the February 2015 Soap Boxing Poetry Slam in St. Paul, Minnesota. Help bring Button to you.

“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”

— David Foster Wallace

“I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.”

— Sage Francis

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene, Ways Of Escape (via the-book-diaries)

What distinguishes grace from everything else? Grace is unearned. If you’ve moved through the world in such a way as to feel you’ve earned cosmic compensation, then what you’ve earned is something more like justice, like propriety. Not grace. Propriety is correct. Justice is just. There’s an inescapable transactional quality: perform x good, receive y reward. Grace doesn’t work that way. It begins with the reward. Goodness never enters the equation.

— Kaveh Akbar, from Martyr!

“The difference between a dream and wakefulness: we know it’s real if it hurts.”

— Emily Eastman - “The First Time” 

“Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.”

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

I have never understood where the line is drawn, between sacrifice and self-slaughter.

Hilary Mantel

And, finally, [Vetinari] kept Leonard around because the man was easy to talk to. He never understood what Lord Vetinari was talking about, he had a world view about as complex as that of a concussed duckling and, above all, never really paid attention. This made him an excellent confidant. After all, when you seek advice from someone it’s certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.

- Terry Pratchett, Jingo