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The hottest thing a partner can do is teach you things
a lot of loving and being loved by people is recognizing when they're sincerely trying to help or comfort you even if their words are clunky and unhelpful at best and holding onto the sentiment that they are trying to reach for you at all. and a lot of the time that has to be enough because it's all you're going to get
i hope you were charmed by my tendency to fall into long silences
you need to be earnest. you need to tell people that you love them. you need to speak on how you’re feeling honestly. you need to be sentimental. you need to stop letting the fear of other people laughing at you have so much control over how you express yourself. you need to get over yourself. you need to be embarrassing but true.
"Do it scared" is out. "Do it in a fugue so dense as to barely be penetrable by uncertainty" is in.
St. Sebastian (School of Nicolas Regnier, 17th c.)
Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, featured in Letters to Sartre
Friendship Can b just as fulfilling as any other kind of love Straight up Most people just lowkey don’t fw their friends that heavy but if u ever had a friend u fw HEAVYYY and I mean heavy you’d know what I was talking abt
youll be able to find books and movies and music that change your life until the day you die. that's pretty good
life could be so handsome life could be so gay