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Else Fitzgerald, from "Everything Feels Like the End of The World," publ. in 2022
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i'm SO laid back, i only care about like 3 things in the world:
- my favorite fictional characters and music
- every person on this earth and their opinion of me
- the crushing psychological weight of being alive
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John Yau, from "Borrowed Love Poems," featured in Boston Review (edited)
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Simone de Beauvoir, from "Inseraparable: A Never Before Published Novel,"
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Margartia Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from Rien ne va plus
[Text ID: “I would have preferred if you had loved me less and understood me more.”]
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Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere
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“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.”
— Mary Oliver, Dogfish
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Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
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“I watch him in the kitchen, and I think of how much it hurts to love somebody. How deep the hurt is, how almost unbearable. It’s not the love that hurts; it’s the possibility of anything happening to the object of your love.”
— Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
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I use to draw apple trees like that too
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~ Meredith Grey