I Miss Mitya Karamazov So Fucking Much No One Threatened Suicide Like Him

starting to think the amount of sleep you get has an impact on how much energy you have the next day. i’ll investigate more and get back to you

Denise Levertov, from This Great Unknowning: Last Poems; “Feet”

Thinking about how when I started The Brothers Karamazov and had only read the first couple chapters so I wasn’t in deep enough yet I was like “ok, finally a Dostoevsky book I can be pretty normal about!” And here we are now. It’s pretty much my entire personality and I’m so obnoxious about it

“You may think: What’s happened? Good God, are they kidding? But it is a rule of life, alas, that nobody is kidding.”

— Andrew Sean Greer, Less Is Lost

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

— Vincent van Gogh

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

Quotes by Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath