“She Was The Kind Of Person Who Took Care Of Things By Herself. She’d Never Ask Anybody For Advice

— lana del rey, from cinnamon girl; norman fucking rockwell! (2019)

I'm not the exception, I'm a blessing of a body to love on

- I’m Not Here to Make Friends, Sam Smith

“If we lie to the government, it’s a felony, but if they lie to us, it’s politics.” - Huey Freeman

“What's eating you alive / Might help you to survive / And even the nights, they could get better / And even the days ain't all that bad”

- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Me and Mia

“a guy once told me “a man is only insecure about a woman when he knows she deserves better” and that really hit me”

— lieinlove

I had a sense of preparation for a love to come. Like the extension of canopies, the unrolling of ceremonial carpets, as if I must first create a marvelous world in which to house it, in which to receive adequately this guest of honor.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume One 1931-1934, Anaïs Nin

“I’m doing drugs just to maintain - part of the reason that I can handle this damn pain”

— XXXTENTACION x KiD TRUNKS | 777

“I just want someone to love me hardest when I least deserve it.”

— Javson Johnson, “Building”

“If you don’t love yourself you will always be chasing after people who don’t love you either.”

— Mandy Hale

“It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn’t that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.”

— Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt (Tin House Books, March 7, 2023)