"pretty" Isn't PRETTY ENOUGH.

"pretty" isn't PRETTY ENOUGH.

Anne Carson, from The Glass Essay

the feminine urge to study about everything ever but also wanting to die everytime you need to touch a school book

do they ever think about me?

don't care + didn't ask + hope you're cursed forever to sleep on a twin size mattress

this is how i feel daily btw

i love when a character is a ghost but in a tragic way instead of a scary way. i love when a character has been dead from the beginning but is still holding on to stay in the narrative. i love when a character could choose to resent the living but ends up loving them instead. i love when a character drives the story but isn’t quite there enough to be at the center of it. i love when the ghosts are the protectors instead of the ones causing the harm. i love when a character is at the heart of the story because depending on where you began it, no matter how you told it, the story is about the ghost who struggled to keep their humanity