apologies like love letters

i'm paige and i'm pretentious.

[thecollectibles]

Fairy tales by 冯伟 Feng Wei（c12）

[dionysian-mystery]

David Foster Wallace

[distantvoices]

Cho Giseok

[psikonauti]

Ulla Thynell (Finnish, b. 1982)

Untitled, 2021

Watercolor and alcohol ink on paper

[kitchen-light]

“When I first asked my grandma if I could write and publish about her, she gave me an instruction that has stuck with me over the years and I try to always keep it in mind when I write about family. She said, roughly translated from Korean: “you can write what you want, but let us live a little more beautifully the second time.” I took this as permission with a condition that I would fictionalize where necessary, to protect them and myself. The women I write about are both us and not us. Maintaining that fictionalized barrier is important to me.”

— Jihyun Yun, from “you can write what you want, but let us live a little more beautifully the second time": Jihyun Yun in conversation with Nicole Lachat, published Prairie Schooner, March 9, 2023

[litbowl]

From Yesika Salgado's book, Corazón. Get your copy here. (Not a Cult, 2018).

[lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223]

DECLARATIONS OF A HEALTHY ADULTHOOD 

DAVID RICHO

[yohjimuse]

still read this constantly

[remanence-of-love]

[heavensghost]

words from class of 2013 by mitski

[heavensghost]

Louise Glück

[ashstfu]

what the fuck is rizz. tell me i’m the knife you twist inside yourself

[kosmogrl]

[flowerytale]

Sharon Olds, from "Something Is Happening", One Secret Thing: Poems

[thepersonalquotes]

““I know this transformation is painful but you’re not falling apart; you’re just falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful.” - William C. Hannan”

—

[flowerytale]

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947

[hungryfictions]

Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy

[cache-e]

“I feel very small. I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.”

Anaïs Nin, from nearer the moon: the previously unpublished unexpurgated diary,1937-1939