Maggie Nelson, From Something Bright, Then Holes

Maggie Nelson, from Something Bright, Then Holes

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mary Bowles (about December 1858)

we return to each other in waves this is how water loves!!!!!!!!

honestly that "it costs 0 dollars to be kind" bullshit is bullshit. it does cost things to be kind. it costs time. it costs energy. and it isn't always easy and it isn't always natural. it costs so much to be kind, sometimes. but that's the whole point. if being kind were easy, or simple, every single person would be an angel. but they're not, and the world isn't easy and simple. so no, it does cost something to be kind. but it's worth it anyway.

I think THE most fun and sexy brain thing I have going on is that I pick up speech patterns just Incredibly easily, which includes such sources as Memes and Classic Lit so yknow. That’s why I sound like this

I am, as the novelists say, in need of seaside air