Me, Looking Back On It All:

Richard Hugo, Essay on Poetic Theory: The Triggering Town

Edward Hopper

Drawings, 1920s

SARAH SNOOK at the 2022 HBO Post-Emmy Awards Reception in California. By Mark Leibowitz.

“walking down your authentic path can be one of the loneliest roads to travel on because the longer you’re on it, the more you realize that only a select few will be compatible with who you are with no mask on.”

— billy chapata

Call me by your name (2017)

“I’ve seen a lot of beautiful things with a heavy heart.”

— Albert Camus

Barbarian (2022)

“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get - a cold, sick feeling deep down inside - when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again be quite the person you were.”

— Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

“I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl, a cry.” 

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

i need to get laid or alternatively be put down like a rabid dog but i seriously cannot keep acting like this