[afterthefireisgone]

The urge to live alone in a cabin in the woods but still a 20 minute drive from a grocery store, a coffee shop, and a bar is insane for me at this stage in my life.

[notbeingnoticed]

@liminal_s on X

[mournfulroses]

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

[shisasan]

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.

—Henry Miller, Stand Still like the Hummingbird (1962)

[out-andabout]

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[shisasan]

May 24, 1961 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977

[h-isforhome]

they don't tell you this but if ur really lonely for a long time, a hole starts forming in ur heart and the longer u feel lonely the bigger the hole gets and it doesn't matter if u feel less lonely when ur older bc the hole stays forever and ur life just grows around it. But the hole is always there.

[shisasan]

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

[trillord]

[petaltexturedskies]

Ada Limón, “Instructions on Not Giving Up” in The Carrying: Poems (originally published in 2017)

[day-dreamer-for-now]

[rozzed]

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[flowerytale]

Anaïs Nin, from “The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955–1966”

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[petaltexturedskies]

Mary Shelley, from a letter to Maria Gisborne written c. September 1822, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley

[afterthefireisgone]