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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by scholars and philosophers, as considering happiness as a something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil is interesting. This is the sin of the artist: a refusal to admit that evil is dull and pain is boring.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas

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Just look at us, all of us, quietly doing our thing and trying to matter. The earnestness is inspiring and heartbreaking at the same time.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Textbook (via exhaled-spirals)

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elegy — chen chen / things about love & connection — @rynoook / little weirds — jenny slate

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I.M.E.R., La Prière, 2009

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“I have always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I have worked hard at being the hero of my own life, but every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn’t know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No.”

— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via luthienne)

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“Her loneliness was as big as the landscape.”

— Jim Harrison, from The Farmer’s Daughter (Grove Press, 2009)(via a-quiet-green-agreement)

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[ID: excerpt from “Lighthousekeeping” by Jeanette Winterson

We are luck, even the worst of us, because daylight comes.]

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“It was a vast mistake to tell you nothing, and now someone else tells you everything.”

— Michael Burkard

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ask polly: how do i stop sabotaging my amazing new relationship?

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ada limón, from bright dead things

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“Who needs a heart? Who needs a heart. Who needs a heart? Hush, why aren’t you screaming?”

— — Harmony Holiday, from “Anahata/The Unstruck Sound,” The Black Catatonic Scream

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“I’m haunted by all the space that I will live without you.”

— Richard Brautigan, from “Boo, Forever,” The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster (Four Seasons Foundation, 1968)

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“The less love you put into things the more they resemble one another. The same goes for stories, everyone knows them by heart, but when someone tells them with love, I don’t know, they seem new…that’s what I think anyway.”

— Andrés Neuman, Traveller of the Century (trans. Nick Caistor & Lorenza Garcia)

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Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

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“Bad writing does nothing, changes nothing, educates no emotions, rewires no inner circuitry - we close its covers with the same metaphysical confidence in the universality of our own interface as we did when we opened it. But great writing - great writing forces you to submit to its vision. You spend the morning reading Chekhov and in the afternoon, walking through your neighbourhood, the world has turned Chekhovian; the waitress in the cafe offers a non- sequitur, a dog dances in the street.”

— Zadie Smith, Fail Better