Years Pass, But With You, It’s Always Opening Night. ( ⚘ )

Traci Brimhall, from her poem titled "Love Poem Without a Drop of Hyperbole in It,"

poet of an ordinary heartbreak by Chris Abani

Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami

𝔠𝔦𝔱𝔶 𝔡𝔞𝔱𝔢

Acknowledging that “critical thinking” means “thinking about things in a thorough way from different perspectives” and not “finding every flaw in a thing and fixating on it until all the joy is gone” is so liberating.

It’s supposed to be about intellectual curiosity, not about finding ways to devalue things that aren’t perfect or that we personally dislike.

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959 (my translation)