““You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.””
— Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (via hplyrikz)
sky by Vincent Van Gogh
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
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I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong.
— Haruki Murakami
Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
““I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.””
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What has made me speak less with each passing day? I watch the dragonfly escape the lizard by inches and I decide to stay. I want my words and my life to escape death. So every time I try exaggerating my empathy , the insouciance, and the ability to extract only the bad side of my words and my life makes me edge closer to silence. I do not want to throttle my words to death.
“I don’t want you to go.”