simple life. (via)
when susan sontag wrote “I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it”
Victoria Chang, from Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief; “Dear Teacher,”
[Text ID: “The language of poetry reminded me to stay alive. It reminded me that, when it felt like I had nothing, I was nothing, I still had words. I could ride language as if on a horseback, and it could take me anywhere, including deeply into myself.”]
Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf (January 21, 1926)
textures / marion bay, tasmania
efforts will lie, but will never be in vain
John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne, 27 July 1819
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.”
— Haruki Murakami
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Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer
okay hear me out. you know how sk8 started with reki talking about the different kinds of happiness and how skateboarding is his? what IF the show ends with him saying how his happiness is the same except now it's different and the camera pans and we see langa smiling and laughing through reki's eyes?theorize angsty endings all you want but—langa and skateboarding with him is reki's happiness.
update: this literally happened but instead we got it in Langa’s POV. i call that a win.
“comrade!!!!”