Brilliant!

“I just want someone to love me hardest when I least deserve it.”

— Javson Johnson, “Building”

"I've tried getting better, did all of the twelve steps / Whoever would'a thought? Whoever could've guessed? / The harder that I chase it, the further that it gets"

-Grandson, Riptide

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket

“What's eating you alive / Might help you to survive / And even the nights, they could get better / And even the days ain't all that bad”

- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Me and Mia

There will always be a person who looks like a poem the earth wrote to keep you alive.

Juansen Dizon

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

Leo Buscaglia

“It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn’t that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.”

— Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt (Tin House Books, March 7, 2023) 

“She was the kind of person who took care of things by herself. She’d never ask anybody for advice or help. It wasn’t a matter of pride, I think. She just did what seemed natural to her.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Too often, the only escape is sleep.”

— Charles Bukowski

Public Domain Day 2024

Once again its the day we all wait for, public domain day. the day some thing get ripped out of the clasps of the claws of corporations. This year is notable for many things becoming public domain but specifically a certain mouse in the united states. Here's an example of some of the things but note that this is only a sampling of what's become public domain

In Europe and other life of author + 70 years areas:

The Wind Has Risen by Tatsuo Hori

The polish Koziołek Matołek comics by Kornel Makuszyński

Mr. Weston's Good Wine by T.F Powys

In New Zealand and other life of author + 50 years areas:

J.R.R Tolkien's work, but only the ones published during his lifetime. Things published by his son Christopher are not public domain

Margaret Wilson's The Able McLaughlins

The works of crime writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson (Anthony Gilbert)

In the US:

All things published in 1928

The big one of course, Steamboat Willie and the earliest incarnation of Mickey Mouse. Disney still owns trademarks so be careful and theres some things like his gloves that didnt appear until later and im sure the Mouse's lawyers are watching like hawks

The House at Pooh Corner, first appearance of Tigger

Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf

Theres much more. Take a peek over at Project Gutenberg or The Internet Archive