Ankita

Curious reader.

[franceshahah]

You wouldn't know if you like living somewhere unless you've spent every season there.

#quotes #ponder #thoughts

[franceshahah]

[dk-thrive]

Instead of resentment at the lack of sun, snuggle into the gray velvet quilt and make yourself a cup of tea.

Winter is a time of gray, velvet weather drifting toward us…The weather is a friend if you make it one. I look forward to the gray, quiet time for solitude, contemplation, reading, long conversations with friends. Colors are softer; sounds have more depth; the pace is gentler. Instead of resentment at the lack of sun, snuggle into the gray velvet quilt and make yourself a cup of tea.

 —  Jennifer James, “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey” (W.W. Norton & Co., January 1, 1986)

[franceshahah]

[franceshahah]

First reads of 2023.

[seaoflove]

https://open.substack.com/pub/alovelettertoyou/p/anyway-its-about-old-friends?r=1efwxm&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

[saltedbutr]

one time my best friend and I went for ramen and I went to the bathroom while the food was being prepared. when I came back the food was there and I belatedly noticed I had an extra half of a soft boiled egg in mine and was like 'wait I thought it was just half an egg per bowl?' then I looked over to my friend's bowl and sure enough she didn't have any egg in hers anymore. she doesn't like runny egg yolk but she knows I do so she automatically gave me hers without having to ask if I wanted it because she knew I would, because she knows me.

[franceshahah]

❤

[exitwound]

Music will change your life against your will.This is sometimes the only way it can happen. But poetry you have to beg to be able to change your life yourself but if you do then you will. Also sometimes the only way it can happen

[franceshahah]

Favourite wall.

[franceshahah]

Twilight hour at kitchen.

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

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[franceshahah]

💙

[quotespile]

“A blend of good and bad characterized all humans, and to pretend to sort that out was an insult to human complexity. But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It was OK to be murky to yourself, to know you weren’t an angel, but other people had to be more cleanly divided into good and bad.”

— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers