Jihyun Yun, from Some Are Always Hungry; “Reversal”
[Text ID: “I so want to survive this. Please lead me whole into another season so I may dare begin again.”]
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i feel disposable
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“I have grown weary of talking about life as if it is deserved, or earned, or gifted, or wasted. I’m going to be honest about my scorecard and just say that the math on me being here and the people who have kept me here doesn’t add up when weighed against the person I’ve been and the person I can still be sometimes. But isn’t that the entire point of gratitude? To have a relentless understanding of all the ways you could have vanished, but haven’t? The possibilities for my exits have been endless, and so the gratitude for my staying must be equally endless.”
— Hanif Abdurraqib, from “On Times I Have Forced Myself Not to Dance,” in A Little Devil in America
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on the cruelness of fifteen
@/petrichara // the shape of a girl, joan macleod // @/cowboyvamplikeme // fifteen, taylor swift
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no offence but i think a lot of us me included don’t actually want romantic love as badly as we think and really are just lonely and crave a closeness and intimacy that feels out of reach in friendships because of society’s emphasis on marriage and the nuclear family so we project that into the never ending search for a perfect love and a soulmate when really we all just want to mean something to someone
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Sally Wen Mao, from The Kenyon Review (Mar/Apr 2020)
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How can I explain to you, my happiness, my golden, wonderful happiness, how much I am all yours – with all my memories, poems, outbursts, inner whirlwinds? Or explain that I cannot write a word without hearing how you will pronounce it – and can’t recall a single trifle I’ve lived through without regret – so sharp! – that we haven’t lived through it together – whether it’s the most, the most personal, intransmissible – or only some sunset or other at the bend of a road – you see what I mean, my happiness?
— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
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The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniels
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— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
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Anne Carson // Jonathan Safran Foer
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— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"
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— Frida Kahlo, The Letters of Frida Kahlo: Cartas Apasionadas
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