9 7 W A L K

[frankencain]

"It's awful, being a child", she said simply. "At the mercy of other people."

The Little Friend, Donna Tartt

[charish-cherish]

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from his novel titled "White Nights," originally published in 1848

[t4nku]

I legit needed to hear this

[televisionenjoyer]

My problem is that I have betrayed everything that I am for phone in bed

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[quotespile]

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”

— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

[kosmogrl]

when not to think about the passage of time/your life:

- sundays

- end of the year

- your bday/the days leading up to it

[kosmogrl]

and if you’re like me and your birthday is at the end of the year please just stop thinking in general

[euphorictruths]

The Lovers, The Lovers Return- Parker Parrella; 2024, 2025

[fortuneaday]

[eggsdoodz]

just a lost ladybird trying to find their way

[quotespile]

“Grief has a warring logic; it always wants something impossible, something worse and something better.”

— Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

[rylandsgrace]

Addams Family Values (1993) dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

[boycritter]

maybe i like my tech a little bit inconvenient

[boycritter]

maybe i like pulling out my debit card instead of using apple pay. maybe i like untangling my wired headphones. maybe i like typing something into the search bar instead of using siri or whatever. maybe i like curating my own social media feeds over an algorithm. i just don’t think everything has to be perfectly streamlined and efficient i like it when things feel tethered to the real world.

[fortuneaday]

[quotespile]

“He knew that by confessing, one earned the subtle right to become confessor to the other, in his turn. A secret deserves a secret, and a tale deserves a tale; the gentle expectation of a response in kind was a pressure he knew how to apply.”

— Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

[quotespile]

“According to the police, of course, our community was a rogue community. It was we who were the enemy, we who were the terrorists, the civilian terrorists, the associates of terrorists or simply individuals suspected of being but not yet discovered to be terrorists. That being the case, and understood by both parties to be the case, the only time you’d call the police in my area would be if you were going to shoot them, and naturally they would know this and so wouldn’t come.”

— Anna Burns, Milkman