𝟏𝟐 𝐩𝐭. 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧

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presently resenting that last hashtag???

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃, 𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐀𝐑, 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐘𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄
𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓, 𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇, 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄

“How do I know I love you? Because no choice I make to love you is made begrudgingly.”

inching by kilometres.

not chill enough to be in this iteration of things.

What a privilege it is when the most threatening things you experience in your life exist only on a screen or in a book.

It’s a privilege to be threatened by symbols, and nothing but.

The house wore chit-chat like thrifted rags. Hand-me-down conversation that they wore day in, day out, laundered when necessary. The same thing every day, like a uniform. But gosh, what a happy nuclear family. Just like all the other happy nuclear families. With clean clothes and no dirty laundry.

𝘥𝘩𝘤𝘮𝘳𝘭𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘥𝘫
—Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel”

Borges sure did relish his 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴.

heresiarchnemesis

I need a writing group to critique my social media posts before I post them.

What a fascinating little building :O

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. The lamp in the spine does not light on beef and prunes.”
—Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

truly.

Traffic. Reminds me of my dad. Every man against another, every man for himself. & the women too because they’re human. Rage. But put us all together and leave no room and suddenly cooperation floats between emissions. Can’t resist any longer—forced to slow down, it becomes ok to let each other in.

“You had nothing to conquer in your heart or in your intelligence.”
— Camus

3 afflictions: ADHD, health anxiety, writer.

Combined, these potent alchemical substances unlock the bare (not material) universe.

My omniscience and omnipotence are housed within my suffering.

Thrust into the (material) universe, my words are gospel.

I pretend they aren’t.

Read me and bow.

This is the kind of self-advocacy you love to see.

He held him, this trembling man who had the great misfortune of evading grief for all his years. Forever he cried, until the younger one said, “I can’t take away your pain. I think I’m rather limited by everything I haven’t experienced.”

Valid.

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Girl any person in their right mind knows he’s a Mariner. You good.

“But a light that fails is still better than unchallenged darkness.”

—T Roszak

“Why you have to look like an idiot?” she asked. “Suppose company were to come? When are you going to grow up? What’s going to become of you? I look at you and I want to cry! …”

“Leave me be,” the child said in a high irritated voice … “I ain’t you …”

“You keep away from them boys,” Mrs. Cope said, turning sharply. “Ladies don’t beat the daylight out of people…”

How is it that everything is so interesting. And all of the parts of everything.

❝𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐄-𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐀 𝐈𝐂𝐄❞

I crave a disconnected future, so I’m slumbering away and farther and farther away in a cold, envious bed.

What I had yesterday would be just as good and just as sweet tomorrow. I miss my yesterdays.