“You Alone Keep Me – You Are The Only Chain That Links Me To Time – But For You I Should Be Free

“People think intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is ‘You’re safe with me’ - that’s intimacy.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Franz Kafka Illustration for Metamorphosis by Miguel Almagro

and haunting diary entries.

Parrot Dance

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“Harder to endure than fresh pain is pain that has already been endured: a reminder that one is not far from who one was.”

— Yiyun Li,  “Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life”

how to make your effects extra special

simmer - hayley williams / the bell jar - sylvia plath / cop car - mitski / judith slaying holofernes - artemisia gentileschi / fast as you can - fiona apple / animal- aurora / salome - jean benner / tonight i am someone else - chelsea hodson / wishbone - richard siken / ride - lana del rey

Here have some chaotic academia pictures because I’m gay!

been thinking about trees

paradoxical quotes are the best and makes my ne happy.

“A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.” Banksy.

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”  Frank Herbert.

“One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.” Soren Kierkegaard.  

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.” Mark Twain.   (this rules! think about it!)

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” Mahatma Gandhi.

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.” George Bernard Shaw.

“Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. ” Zsa Zsa Gabor.

“Failing to plan, is like planning to fail.” Stephen McCranie.  

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”  Oscar Wilde.

“It’s weird not to be weird.” John Lennon.

“Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.” C. JoyBell C.  

“And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” Erica Jong. 

“The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.” Criss Jami.

“Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.”  Ellen DeGeneres.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. Jacques Derrida.

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”  Michel de Montaigne.

“Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.” Albert Einstein.

“Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity”  Stephen King.

“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”  Tony Schwartz.

sometimes i think about the golden record and i want to cry