Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems Of Emily Dickinson

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

I’ll never not sob over these 2 shots.

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

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

wouldn’t it be nice if we were older then we wouldn’t have to wait so long?and wouldn’t it be nice to live together in the kind of world where we belong? you know it’s gonna make it that much better, when we can say goodnight and stay together. wouldn’t it be nice if we could wake up in the morning when the day is new? and after having spent the day together hold each other close the whole night through?

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

"I exist as I am, that is enough,

If no other in the world be aware I sit content,

And if each and all be aware I sit content.

One world is aware and by far the largest to me,

and that is myself..."

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself

“Everything has been figured out,

except how to live.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

"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]