— Jeremy Radin, From “So I Locked Myself Inside A Star For Twenty Years.”

replace "very":

very happy: ecstatic, joyful, excited

very scared: terrified, fearful

very angry: livid, vengeful

very hungry: starved, skeletal

very sad: sorrowful, dejected, unhappy

very distrusting: doubtful, dubious, cynical

very shy: timid, bashful, reserved

very fun: enjoyable, amusing, refreshing

very big: gigantic, huge, enormous

very small: tiny, minuscule, compact

very alive: lively, vigorous, energetic

very sharp: pointed, spired, tipped

very much: many, abundant, greatly

very yummy: delicious, tasteful

very good: excellent, fine, virtuous

very bad: evil, terrible, poor

very sudden: abrupt, unexpected

very soon: near, shortly

very fast: quick, swift, brisk

very slow: leisurely, sedate

very cold: frigid, freezing

very hot: heated, balmy, spicy

very thin: slim, scrawny, skinny

very thick: stocky, hefty, large

Keep in mind not all words apply to all situations (you wouldn't use "spicy" to describe hot weather).

edit: colour me wrong...every person who has interacted with this post would describe the weather as spicy.

— Jeremy Radin, from “So I Locked Myself Inside a Star for Twenty Years.”

“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.”

— Albert Einstein

I can only cry when I'm drunk

I can only feel when I'm numb

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”

— Anthony Doerr

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.

English Proverb

“If it’s still in your mind, it is still in your heart.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Sometimes the happiest ending isn’t the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are.”

— Shauna Niequist

Living feels twisted, gnarled like the roots of a tree that grew somewhere it was never meant to

I am out with lanterns looking for myself

— Emily Dickinson