Either you will ( Read more... )

My Tower ( Read more... )

"And I was alone, had been for a while, and might be for a while, but it no longer frightened me the way it had. I was discovering something terrifyingly simple: there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. I was discovering this in the way, I suppose, that everybody does, but having tried, endlessly, to do something about it. You attach ( Read more... )

"Our distrust is very expensive. The money we spend for courts and prisons is very ill laid out. We make, by distrust, the thief and burglar and incendiary, and by our court and jail we keep him so."
--ralph waldo emerson

If there is something to desire,
there will be something to regret.
If there is something to regret,
there will be something to recall.
If there is something to recall,
there was nothing to regret.
If there was nothing to regret,
there was nothing to desire.

vera pavlova trans steve seymour

if i could have it all, i would combine the work of these three women for when i grow up, and everything would be perfect ( Read more... )

goals for this next year:
-STOP WORRYING about stupid shit
-write a lot more

"She says, I’m not asking about what is it that makes them able to talk about being good, but what actually leads them to be good? And she says that of everything she can think of, the thing that does it most is the thing called beauty. Now, I refer to it in this book as the ‘state of opiated adjacency’ (laughter), because I think there are lots of ( Read more... )

Whatever we do, whether we light ( Read more... )

Q: What gives you hope ( Read more... )