Oh No, Oh No, He Is Seducing Me With His Deep Passion For His Field Of Study And His Genuine Joy At Teaching

“I’ll have it. You have to give it to me. It’s gotta go somewhere.”

Fleabag | 2.04

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Outbound”

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

this December i refuse to be sad this december i will wake up and read this rilke quote every morning because damn he’s right life has not forgotten me it holds me in its hand and will not let me fall

Stutz (2022)

– Emily Dickinson, from Manuscript #842

“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get - a cold, sick feeling deep down inside - when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again be quite the person you were.”

— Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

“I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl, a cry.” 

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

- Jim Morrison

#PersonalRevolution

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar