Tina

“To feel that empty, again, again. I listen to my heart, wave upon wave, salty and red, continuing on and on, marking time.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Oh, he was a pretentious fool, making careers out of cocktails and meanwhile regretting, weakly and secretly, the collapse of an insufficient and wretched idealism. He had garnished his soul in the subtlest taste and now he longed for the old rubbish. He was empty, it seemed, empty as an old bottle —”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“If you can't do what you long to do, go do something else. Go walk the dog, go pick up every bit of trash on the street outside your home, go walk the dog again, go bake a peach cobbler, go paint some pebbles with brightly colored nail polish and put them in a pile. You might think it's procrastiantion, but - with the right intention - it isn't; it's motion. And any motion whatsoever beats inertia, because inspiration will always be drawn to motion.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“fall
in love
with your solitude”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey