May Sarton, Journal Of A Solitude

the music will always save me

my daily habit of continuing on

“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”

— Jack Kerouac

𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟹𝟶, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟸 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

Even if your life sucks right now, you can do things to make it suck less. Learn to make your favorite coffee drink. Wear clothes you really like. Do yoga. Sometimes the small things save us.

Audre Lorde, from The Black Unicorn: Poems; “Power”

[Text ID: “I have not been able to touch the destruction within me.”]

Sylvia Plath, aged 22, in a letter to her mother (dated Sunday, 9 January 1955)

For old times sake is actually such a heartbreaking and beautiful sentiment. Like, let’s do it for the love that used to be here. It is reason enough.