“I watch him in the kitchen, and I think of how much it hurts to love somebody. How deep the hurt is, how almost unbearable. It’s not the love that hurts; it’s the possibility of anything happening to the object of your love.”
— Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
I shall live on dreams because reality is too cruel for me. I think I shall be the kind of person that nobody understands,
Anaïs Nin, Linotte: The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1914-1920
My view (sped up) of eclipse in Indiana.
library book return dates
2024 Eclipse Totality, Toledo, OH
I never want to hear conservatives go on about repressive censorship in China, North Korea, and Iran ever again
To be clear to those unfamiliar: these are the companies that libraries use to lend ebooks.
They are literally cutting off library access to minors.
If you are affected by this or other bans and restrictions in the United States, be aware that the Brooklyn Public Library is offering free digital library cards to anyone age 13-21 nationwide as part of their Books UnBanned initiative:
BOOOOOST
taken by me
Ever After (1998) + Danielle’s ball gown
Mt. Rainier, USA by Danielle Nelson
“It is part of her beauty, this quality of being not quite there, dreamlike.” - Anaïs Nin
normalise disappearing without an explanation
"Mad Girl’s Love Song" by Sylvia Plath
“It lulls me. The river is like a drug. What I suffer from seems unreal when I come here.”
— Anaïs Nin, from “Delta Of Venus,” originally published c. August 1977
you don’t have to belong everywhere
