— Clarice Lispector, from a letter to Fernando Sabino featured in Why This World
— Alessandro Baricco, from “Silk.”
آمل أن تجد شخص يلره إيذاء قلبك
I hope you find someone who hates hurting your heart.
Natasha Trethewey, from Thrall: Poems; “Torna Atrás”
[Text ID: “how it is / that a man could love— and so / diminish what he loves.”]
“I’ve found that growing up means being honest. About what I want. What I need. What I feel. Who I am.”
— Epiphany
FLEABAG (2016 - 2019) Season 1 | Episode 4
Lil' poem today to remind us to have the courage to keep living with an open heart ❤️
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“What you wait for, you’ll always wait for.”
— Ruba’iyat, from A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems by Fernando Pessoa, ed. & trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin Classics, 2006)
but oh well, life goes on.
i wasted another year, lol
cant sleep too busy thinking about “love is awful. it’s awful. it’s painful. it’s frightening. it makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. it makes you selfish. it makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes you cruel, makes you say and do things you never thought you would do. it’s all any of us want, and it’s hell when we get there. so no wonder it’s something we don’t want to do on our own. i was taught if we’re born with love then life is about choosing the right place to put it. people talk about that a lot, feeling right, when it feels right it’s easy. but i’m not sure that’s true. it takes strength to know what’s right. and love isn’t something that weak people do. being a romantic takes a hell of a lot of hope. i think what they mean is, when you find somebody that you love, it feels like hope.”
im in a good place rn. not emotionally. just in my room
energy
