Without the love of Farly, I am just a heap of frayed and half-finished thoughts; of blood and muscle and skin and bone and unachievable dreams and a stack of shit teenage poetry under my bed. My mess only takes a proper shape with that
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“There’s a particular feeling in your body when something goes right after a long time of things going wrong. It feels warm and sweet and loose. I feel all that as I hold the phone and listen to Manolo talk about W-4s and the study hall schedule and my mailbox combination and faculty parking. For a moment all my bees have turned to honey.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“Nostalgia: Greek compound combining nostos (homecoming) and álgos (pain). The literal Greek translation for nostalgia is “pain from an old wound.”
― Ghosts
― Ghosts
“When we read The Aeneid he pauses on a line then reads it again: ‘Someday we will remember even these our hardships with pleasure.”
― Heart the Lover
― Heart the Lover
“Nearly every guy I’ve dated believed they should already be famous”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
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