the relationship between a girl and her favourite mug is something that can be so personal
ON CLOSENESS
Sally Rooney, Normal People / Edvard Munch / Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina / Holly Warburton / Jenny Slate, Little Weirds / Salman Toor
Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted.
- Abraham Verghese
i'm not heaving out giant sighs because i'm angry, i just genuinely forget to breathe sometimes
“I’m beginning to recognise that real happiness isn’t something large and looming on the horizon ahead but something small, numerous and already here. The smile of someone you love. A decent breakfast. The warm sunset. Your little everyday joys all lined up in a row.”
— Beau Taplin (via perfeqt)
the reader keeps a character in a time loop by telling their story over and over again. icarus flys. icarus falls. we tell the story again. nothing changes.
