#quotes....

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[golden-letters]

bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

[catchymemes]

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[remanence-of-love]

[daily-spooky]

[emotionalwords]

i’m such a “i want your attention” but “won’t bother you” kinda person

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[wedarkacademia]

Yeah now we've entered the back pain stage

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[aestheteasteria]

seeking, yearning, reaching hands

[catchymemes]

[lara-cairncross]

this man has never met an alien he couldn’t parent