The Moon That Turns You Back, Hala Alyan

Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay”, Glass, Irony, and God

You came into my life – not as one comes to visit (you know, ‘not taking one’s hat off’) but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

anne sexton

landscape with a blur of conquerors, richard siken

—Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Just create the thing you want to create. Because who's going to stop you? Oh, it's you yourself? Well you can't let that bastard win, can you?

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922; “A Hero of Labor”

﹙ Text ID: I’ll cry about this earth in heaven too.﹚

learning that people want you in their lives is a skill you can develop if it does not come naturally