James Baldwin.

obsessed with her vibe

Fyodor Dostoevsky //Jean-Paul Sartre

- Kazuo Ishiguro - The Paris Review Interview: The Art of Fiction.

poetry is wild because in any given collection 30% of it will make you feel nothing, 60% will make you feel varying levels of confused and curious, and the other 10% will crack open your brain like an egg and reveal new truths about the human condition

— December 18, 1910 / Franz Kafka diaries

hey sorry your boyfriend said that russian classics are about that life is bleak. yeah he meant dostoyevsky and tolstoy. no, he didn't look beyond any of the lowest lows of the stories. he didn't even see the overarching themes of beauty and hope and connection. frankly we have all been laughing about him and we're gonna beat him up now. sorry

Oh, Canada (2024)

oh and that gap in my resume is when i was digging my own grave