“What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?”— Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending (via letters-to-nobody)
we should talk more about how every decision you make as an adult leaves you with the same sensation you got at a friend’s house the morning after a sleepover when you’re the first to wake up. It’s dreadful and a homesickness and loneliness and you want your cups and you want your comforter and it’s just you on your own trying to get through.
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whatever was left, that was ours for a while.
sunrise - louise glück
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“My heart was attached to the firewood. It was wrapped first in kindle, thread, rosemary, then burned as tinder. I asked myself how I had lived racing toward an end that would always end in fire.”— Tina Chang, from “Burning,” Orion Magazine (vol. 39, no. 2, Summer 2020)
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