Freedom is a lonely road

I am filled with a kind of unapologetic anger and emptiness all at the same god damn time.

[mydailybookquotes]

“If we get to the point where we don’t help each other anymore, that’s when we stop being human.”

-Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

[vexheart]

[thequotespot]

“lately, i’ve been realizing how much of my life was spent waiting. waiting to feel ready, waiting to feel confident, waiting for the right time. and somehow, life kept moving anyway.”

[thirdity]

“In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we’re done with it, we may find — if it’s a good novel — that we’re a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having met a new face, crossed a street we never crossed before. But it’s very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night

[thoughtkick]

“Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you are choosing someone out of love or loneliness.”

— Mandy Hale

[quotespile]

“It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, Other Inquisitions

[thoughtkick]

“I wanted it so much. I don’t know why I wanted it so much.”

— Ernest Hemingway, Cat in the Rain

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, "Three Women"

[actiiasluna-deactivated20250103]

[batbetbitbotbut]

When I fail to respond it's an homage to letters getting lost at sea

[remanence-of-love]

[sylviamione]

[javarisx-fightingthosedemons]

[ginger-by-the-sea]

[prettylittledrafts]

Rejection Exposure Therapy

I keep returning to you

as if your absence were a shoreline,

letting the cold water take my ankles

again and again

until I no longer gasp.

I tell myself this is how I grow,

learning how to stand in it,

letting the pain wash through me

like pale morning light.

Some nights

I miss the simple mercy

of warmth that stays,

and wonder

why becoming stronger

feels so much like becoming alone.

[alaric7-deactivated20150715]

T Williams.

[journalofanobody]

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”  ― Tennessee Williams

[quotefeeling]

“I’ve found that growing up means being honest. About what I want. What I need. What I feel. Who I am.”

— Epiphany

[webweabings]

I FELT YOU LEAVING, EVEN BEFORE YOU DID

“My Love, My Love, My Love, Why Have You Left Me Alone?”, poem by Delmore Schwartz; // “In Legends”, song by Rachel Rose Mitchell; // post by @annedreeuhhh; // Post on reddit by @ShireSearcher.; // Poem by a.s (unknown); // “Empty bed” (2012), poem by @Chi-742; // Poem by a.s (unknown); // Poem by Sue Zhao; // “Don’t Leave Me Now” (1957), by Elvis Presley; // Post by @endlessnamelesseternity