Lostography

lost • ography: the study of things lost (and found). Curation of quotes, photos, musings.

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okay, damn, Paul Mescal.

All of Us Strangers did something strange to my heart.

And I still haven't recovered from Normal People.

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... I don't care to  be too definite about anything. I have a lot of edges called Perhaps and almost nothing you can call Certainty.

Mary Oliver, “Angels,” Blue Horses (2014)

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People need art in their houses. They don't need Bed Bath and Beyond dentist-office art. They need weird stuff.

Ezra Croft

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A little light goes out inside me. But I can't locate exactly what was ever lit up.

Sabrina Orah Mark, Happily (2023)

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...each morning I thrashed my way back into the world, having just found my footing when the sun began to set.

Michelle Orange, This Is Running for Your Life

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reminder: everything is bent towards blooming eventually. 

pc: valerie owens

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We struggled with a monster and lost.

Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings

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another springtime ago, because this year’s feels so slow coming.

pc. valerie owens

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I like to be cared for. But I’m uneasy with my desire for it. I fought it for years.

Melissa Febos, Abandon Me

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love is understanding we have the power to hurt one another but we are going to do everything in our power to make sure we don't

rupi kaur, “what love looks like,” the sun and her flowers” (2017)

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man crush Monday. ladies and gentleman, the one-armed-wonder, john wesley powell. 

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It seemed of great importance to him that I understood all of this, and so I took care to be sure I did. The exchange was, for me, exciting, in part intellectually, but in part also because I sensed he might be wooing me with this.

Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

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This happens to be my immediate reaction every time someone or something truly gets me, I think, 'Oh, this new book/new friend/new sweater will alter the course of my life in a profound way.'

Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life

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What I find exciting in a new acquaintance is the thought: maybe I'm making a discovery here; maybe someone is entering my life who is nice. That's what gives me joy: the possibility of goodness. I appreciate exceptional intelligence. I can be charged by beauty, and I'm intrigued by charisma. But I will be moved by goodness.

P.M. Forni, Choosing Civility 

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damn. homesickness has a way of gutting you like a knife. 

pc: valerie owens