rynnlie

[rynnlie]

“Please, keep looking. Not for a person, but for your passion, your love, your courage, your goals, your dreams, your happiness, yourself. Keep looking. Explore yourself before you explore another. Know your worth, know yourself. Only then will you know what you need over what you want. You need yourself to become your own.”

—

unknown

note to self

(via astound)

[rynnlie]

[rynnlie]

“This is why it hurts the way it hurts. You have too many words in your head. There are too many ways to describe the way you feel. You will never have the luxury of a dull ache. You must suffer through the intricacy of feeling too much.”

— Iain Thomas

[rynnlie]

One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. And some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.

Gregory David Roberts (via quotemadness)

[rynnlie]

“I feel it, I feel my thin morals dissolving. I feel my flimsy, moth-eaten skin of humanity begin to come apart, and with it, the veil keeping me from complete darkness. There are no lines I won’t cross. No illusions of mercy. I wanted to be better for her. For her happiness. For her future. But if she’s gone, what good is goodness?”

— Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

[rynnlie]

“Bilingualism strikes me as a kind of synesthesia. Instead of seeing colors associated with letters and words, instead of hearing melodies, what I hear with language is the play and echo of the other language. The option to say it differently, and thus to live it differently. Language is not only a means of communication or description. It’s a framework in which we process existence. Yi writes: “It is hard to feel in an adopted language, yet it is impossible in my native language.” As every bilingual person and translator knows, there are certain words—a feeling, a way of being—that is absent in one language but perfectly brought to life in another. A word that, by existing, gives permission to be. What if you need that which does not exist in your language?”

— Yoojin Grace Wuertz, “Mother Tongue”

[rynnlie]

my own private world looks like: reading books, being disconnected from everything that’s going on in pop culture, using my hands more, using my body in new ways, extensive solitude, appreciating my small circle of friends, concentrating on the small things, making art that maybe no one will ever see but is meaningful to me, feeling like it is enough to simply live a life

[rynnlie]

Reading List: The Internet and Social Media

Kaila Philo, “The Professional Friends of YouTube”

Rob Horning, “Social Media, Social Factory” (& “Sick of Myself”)

Nicole Carpenter, “‘Neopets’: Inside Look At Early 2000s Internet Girl Culture”

Simon Chandler, “Escaping Reality: The Iconography Of Vaporwave”

Jia Tolentino, “Where Millennials Come From”

Kate Wagner, “404 Page Not Found”

Linda Besner, “Ambient Cruelty”

Kate Losse, “Weird Corporate Twitter”

[rynnlie]

Can you recommend some essays about speech or language?

Here are a few essays and articles about language use (off the top of my head). I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do!

How Words Fail by Cathy Park Hong

Politics and the English Language by George Orwell

Of Strangeness That Wakes Us by Ilya Kaminsky

The Meanings of a Word by Gloria Naylor

Mother Tongue by Yoojin Grace Wuertz

Borrowing a Simile by Walt Whitman

Word Order by Lewis H. Lapham

Four Essays by Mikhail Bakhtin

Nature: Chapter IV Language by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Strange Persistence of First Languages by Julie Sedivy

What Do You Lose When You Lose Your Language? by Joshua Fishman

[rynnlie]

I hate this feeling. Like I’m here, but I’m not. Like someone cares. But they don’t. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.

Ellen Hopkins (via quotemadness)

[rynnlie]

Breathe. It’s okay. You’re going to be okay. Just breathe. Breathe, and remind yourself of all the times in the past you felt this scared. All of the times you felt this anxious and this overwhelmed. All of the times you felt this level of pain. And remind yourself how each time, you made it through. Life has thrown so much at you, and despite how difficult things have been, you’ve survived. Breathe and trust that you can survive this too. Trust that this struggle is part of the process. And trust that as long as you don’t give up and keep pushing forward, no matter how hopeless things seem, you will make it.

Daniell Koepke (via quotemadness)

[rynnlie]

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn’t.

James Frey (via quotemadness)

[rynnlie]

[rynnlie]

“If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?”

“Maybe I’d say what I feel more often. But I… I don’t know. You know, I’ve had my head tilted up to the stars for as long as I can remember. You know what surprised me the most? It wasn’t meeting them. It was meeting you.”

Arrival (2016)

[rynnlie]

[rynnlie]

trời ơi có thể xuất sắc như vậy cũng tốt quá đi

tuổi trẻ tốt quá đi

có thể nhớ được nhiều thứ một cách thiệt sự dễ dàng

[rynnlie]

i’m into nct winwin these days and kinda confused which language should i learn next, kor or chi T..T