this is my sad (and not so sad) quote blog

[annori]

Barbara Kingsolver from Demon Copperhead (2022)

[liberatingreality]

People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on.

There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.

Marie-Louise von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales

[mournfulroses]

Salma Deera, from a poem titled "a girl makes a decision: part 2," featured in Letters from Medea: Poems

[kosmogrl]

don’t take my defeatism too seriously I will always begin again and again no matter what

[kosmogrl]

I might sound miserable most of the time but at my core I’m a very hopeful person

[kissdestroy]

leonard cohen's farewell letter to marianne ihlen on a shirt

[thefirstlivingart]

This isn't how life is supposed to feel

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[weltenwellen]

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

[weltenwellen]

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

[elwenyere]

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

[oldshrewsburyian]

I'm so glad they got Ted Chiang -- a wonderful writer of science fiction and thinker about technology, in my opinion -- to write this essay. My favorite line was this:

Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.

[possiblu]

i had - perhaps without knowing, or perhaps not daring to breathe the thought - been searching for someone. that was why i had been avoiding all others

- Madonna in a Fur Coat, Sabahattin Ali, trans. maureen freely and alexander dawe

[nightclubsinger]

Undated pages from one of Marilyn Monroe’s diaries

[1-jar-of-stars]

On Friendship.

[lazyydaisyyy]

Ursula K. Le Guin, “Author’s Note” from The Left Hand of Darkness

[lucidloving]

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

[389]

Musings from Anna Fusco

[feral-ballad]

Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bluest Nude”

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry written c. September 1936 featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1939

[weltenwellen]

Danez Smith, from "summer, somewhere"