“The Sea Is Nothing But A Library Of All The Tears In History.”

Ocean Vuong, “A Letter to my Mother that She Will Never Read” The New Yorker, May 2017 

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

(Charles Bukowski)

“Know that aint nobody coming to rescue you but us. No White Feminist got time for this. No black liberation revolution got you on its posters. You know how many black women died the summer Mike Brown did? Me neither because nobody gave a fuck.”

— Nicole Homer, “The Mother Offers Advice (Or, I Am Doing the Best I Can with What I Have),” from Pecking Order

“How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (via the-book-diaries)

The Sopranos (1999‑2007)

“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? / And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”

— Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck,” Deaf Republic

“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"

Ocean Vuong, from “Woodworking at the End of the World”, Time Is a Mother

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (via quotemadness)