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The great rose window above the portals of the lower basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi (1253).

when georges bataille wrote, “no greater desire exists than a wounded person’s need for another wound” & when gillian flynn wrote, “a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort” & when ocean vuong wrote, “sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined” & when lisa m. basile wrote, “did you inherit a sickness? did you blame god? do you believe in god? do you believe in yourself? are you still on fire? did you ever put out the fire?” & when stephen a. guirgis wrote, “why didn't you make me good enough so that you could’ve loved me?”

when i have a crush i dont kick my feet or twirl my hair instead i am in my kitchen at 3am pacing in circles with my hands clasped behind my back like a middle-aged divorced detective haunted by a cold case he just cant crack

"The Unbearable Lightness of Being", Milan Kundera (translated by Michael Henry Heim)

re-al or fah-ke🤓

“How do I look away now that I have seen you?”

— — Rachel Mennies, from “April 18, 2017,” The Naomi Letters

ugh why must I be always so repulsed by my own vulnerability but I find it very moving and impressive if other people are vulnerable with me????

got diagnosed with heart too big and kind

when Sharon Olds said "If I pass a mirror, I turn away, I do not want to look at her, and she does not want to be seen."

perhaps nothing else on earth matters, besides the love you take in, and the love you put out.

baotuquan趵突泉, jinan济南, shandong province in china by 凡不烦

Ruth Awad, “Reasons To Live”

[grabs your shirt] listen. listen to me. the practical is holy. the everyday is sacred. the simple act of surviving is divine. do you get it? sanctity begins at home, in the hands that build and the lives we live and the deaths we die and the worms that eat our bodies. if making something by hand is not worthy of veneration then nothing is.

extremely so

I don't have hot takes anymore - life is just beautiful and I am lucky

Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead

"War and Peace", Leo Tolstoy (translated by Constance Garnett)

September 11th, 2024 | Rereading the Lord of the Rings

I finished The Two Towers last night! Definitely very different from the Fellowship in terms of pacing, but I liked it too. All the characters are well fleshed-out now, very excited to start the Return of the King!

"You Always Meet Your Love Perchance", Paruyr Sevak (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

are you ever like damn why is literally everyone else scared of openly communicating and being direct and truthful and honest

Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

Neville Goddard, from The Power of Awareness

Text ID: The whole of creation exists in you, and it is your destiny to become increasingly aware of its infinite wonders and to experience ever greater and grander portions of it.

cttos <33 pinterest

oh september, how you have my heart.