Lit - Blog Posts
I would rather be hated for who I am than be loved for who I’m not.
I want a relationship where they don’t just scratch my back, but massage and draw on it softly giving me tingles as I fall asleep.
Closing the chapter with someone doesn’t make you cruel; it simply means they aren’t a part of the next one.
“can we go back to normal?”
considering my normal has been fainting in the shower, not being able to breathe, a heart rate of 190, social avoidance, and feelings of hopelessness,
no. no, we can not go ‘back to normal’.
i was a lover, you were a lesson.
“i dream for the day you give me your heart, because i will hold it closer than i hold my own.”
- abby
i was only a sentence in the book of your life.
but you were the main character in mine.
- abby
I hope that years from now I run into you on the street.
I hope you remember everything the way that I do.
I hope it stings at you the way it stung me.
I hope regret haunts you like an ache.
I hope running into me makes you happy whilst simultaneously hurting you.
I hope you register that I’m doing well without you.
Because I know that when you look in the mirror, it’s my face that you see.
And you will never be able to run away from your inward reflection.
“without your looming shadow, i can finally shine.”
- abby
“i gave the clothes off my back, just for you to stab me.”
- abby
“i remember you often so that the colors won’t fade.”
“fool me once: shame on you.
“fool me twice: well, now you can’t since i have trust issues.”
“…but i can always count on you to let me down.”
- abby
“Knowing that I found you after everything I went through, makes it hurt a lot less.”
- abby
Work on yourself.
Make your morning routine as invigorating as a cup of coffee.
Make the little moments throughout the day the big points you look forward to.
Make yourself your favorite person.
Make yourself put in the hard work to get out the most you can.
Make yourself someone you are genuinely proud of.
Make yourself reflect on the outside what you already were on the inside:
more than enough for them.
- abby
“if you ever wonder why your friends leave you, you already have your answer:
friends don’t leave you; users do.”
“If there’s a sun in my solar system, it’s you.”
- abby
Yrsa Daley-Ward, from bone; “waiting for the check to clear”
Victor Frankenstein, playing god and defying all rules of ethics:
i identify with hamlet because i, too, am a bisexual disasterpiece.
Quietly
You will know when not to add that cup of water that's going to overcook your food; You will know when not to eat that last scoop of icecream at the bottom of the tub; You will know, whom to walk away from, if you listen carefully; You will know because your heart is always telling you, quietly.
it was so hard losing my liver but i had to move on, fam
“The hardest thing about moving forward is leaving something behind - and usually it’s a part of ourselves.”
— Unknown
What about the ones who don't figure it out? Do they splash around in love till someone comes along and save them? Or do they drown slowly, regretting that they fell in love? I wish we knew how deep the waters were before we decide to dive in. I wish we knew how much it hurts when you try to breathe underwater.
“Some people don’t know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.”
— Sarah Addison Allen
Life is a gift. Don't slap away her outstretched hand. Show that you are grateful by being kind and gentle.
Why so often must
"deserving"
be used as a cudgel we wield, blunt and unwieldy, against our own hearts?
No one "deserves" anything --
The world just is, and things just are.
If it is offered and you wish for it? Take.
If you desire to give it, then offer it without fear --
You are valid simply for being --
Worthy of being seen as who you are --
Maybe it's alright to reach out for the things that you desire,
without forcing your way into guilt for things you have not done and have not yet happened --
Maybe it's alright to just be.
"affirmation to self, letter to a friend." V. Rue, 2025.
Cut out the pain and pull out its insides. When you know what it's made of, you'll know how to kill it.
Beware, not all pain is an enemy.
Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters
“I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not in my nature.”
Isabella Thorpe, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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I can't believe Fresco doesn't do divisions. I'm so mad!!!!!
I going to have to finish 2 and 3 on Clip studio!
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