I Love It

“What is love if not falconry? Tugging the humble out of something wild.”

— Hala Alyan, “Gospel: Rumi,” from The Twenty-Ninth Year

Death’s an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

(Ivan Turgenev)

449. Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss (1777) - Antonio Canova, Musée du Louvre, Paris

“I have clawed my way to okay and it will just have to do for now.”

— Rachel Wiley, from Nothing is Okay

Sophocles, Elektra, trans. Anne Carson [1123-1140].

“Life is hard. And so are my nipples as the nurse changes your IV. Baby, I wanna play doctor.”

— Kay Kron, “Doctor”

three stages of life:

1. there are monsters under my bed.

2. there are monsters in my head.

3. i am the monster now.

via schulzmuseum

“Consciousness is a message scribbled in the dark.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (via the-book-diaries)

“We are only here today not because what does not kill us makes us stronger, but because what does not kill us does not kill us.”

— Sam Sax, “Miracles"