Ramblings of a Virgo

[philosophybits]

“I do not wish you much happiness — it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people’s philosophy, I will simply repeat: ‘Live more’ and try somehow not to be too bored…”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

[quotespile]

“I want to tell you, don’t marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it’s adultery.”

— Saul Bellow, Seize the Day

[surqrised]

“You need to learn to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life … work on the mind.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

[shisasan]

“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.”

— Henry Rollins

[quotespile]

“Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.”

— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

[bridgetcowan7]

We have afforded everyone else so much grace that we do not even understand when we are being gracious.

-Bridget Renee

#bridgetrenee #grace #quote

[bridgetcowan7]

I don’t remember the person I was before the person who I am.

She’s a mystery lost in trauma. She died.

In her wake became me. Who is she?

She is strength and determination. Determined to be everyone she could ever be. Everyone who ever was.

I am everyone I should be, and everyone I can’t be.

She is me.

R.I. P.

#bridgetrenee

[bridgetcowan7]

You can’t take the fear of life away any way other than living. #trevicmenski #tiktokquote

[lifeinpoetry]

I procrastinate more than I used to, and worry less. It turns out, important stuff just gets done.

I know it will get done. So it seems strange that I actually have to do it.

Why do I have to make this future that already exists?

— Elisa Gabbert, from "I Don’t Want to Hear Any Good News or Bad News," Normal Distance

[mathematical-blasphemy]

“I felt addicted to disbelief—to the catharsis of reality denying my expectations, or verifying my worst fears, in spectacular fashion.”

— Elisa Gabbert, The Unreality of Memory

[lifeinpoetry]

More to the point, certain frivolities that used to feel harmless now feel harmful. Choices always feel personal.

Personally, I like when decisions feel like they make themselves.

I like to make small decisions that essentially don’t matter.

— Elisa Gabbert, from "The Quality of Nothing (After This Nothing Happened)," Normal Distance

[quotemadness]

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds.”

— Anaïs Nin

[allthoselayersofsilence]

Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

[flowerytale]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman, featured in The Letters Of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

[Text ID: I know I’ll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia―and a great deal of love.]

[weltenwellen]

Franny Choi, from “Catastrophe is Next to Godliness”

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Aldous Huxley, from “Brave New World.”

[quotespile]

“He was always simultaneously at home in whatever scene he found himself and also seemed like he shouldn’t have been there; inside and above at the same time; a part and apart. Like a tree trunk that falls across a creek — it doesn’t belong and then it’s never not been there, generating its own ripples in the larger current.”

— Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys