words i carry with me

[thesewordsthaticarry]

"Is it not possible to concieve a new kind of love in which both partners are equals--one not seeking submission to the other?"

-- Simone deBeauvoir, Essays, 1950

[thesewordsthaticarry]

“The salvation that systems of oppression offer us is a kind of perfection of self-flagellation, that we have to make ourselves perfect in order to be loved.

What if we said: I am worthy right now, even in my brokenness?”

— Dr. Maura Moynihan, Instagram, August 2026

[thesewordsthaticarry]

“You not knowing the next step is actually you being wide open to all possibilities. You being willing to feel whatever comes up in your not-knowing provides you with the capacity and stamina to carry on. We’re not supposed to know. We came here for the adventure of navigating the mystery and the only North Star you need to remember to guide yourself with is within.”

— Dr. Maura Moynihan, @drmauramoynihan

[weltenwellen]

Buttercream Joy Sullivan

[thesewordsthaticarry]

“The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.”

— Ursula K. LeGuin, Dancing on the Edge of the World, 1989

[thesewordsthaticarry]

"Perfectionism is very addictive because it is very seductive. It's so great to think, 'There's a way I can do things where I can never be held in judgment by other people, that I can totally escape criticism?

But it doesn't work."

- Brené Brown, The Power of Vulnerability, 2012

[amilliontinymoments]

“Don't be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again.”

- Marguerite Duras, The North China Lover, 1991

[weltenwellen]

DeeSoul Carson, from “Crown for What Has Kept Me”

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Anne Carson, from "The Glass Essay"

[weltenwellen]

Capilano Rick Barot

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[weltenwellen]

A Poem Is A Place Isabelle Correa

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[thesewordsthaticarry]

"If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.”

— Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas, 2008

[thesewordsthaticarry]

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818

[thesewordsthaticarry]

This and not a single other soul saying shit to me about it.

[thesewordsthaticarry]

“If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.”

— Leonard Cohen