Alexis

“Human beings, you see, fall apart all the time. In many different ways. That is the central theme. There is no need to disguise it.”
― Patrick Somerville, The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

“There aren’t many ways to find comfort in this world. We must take it where we can get it, even in the darkest, most disgusting places. Nobody asks to be born. No one signs a form that says, You have my permission to make me exist. Babies are born, because parents feel that they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fill yours. It’s your fault we’re here to deal with the void in the first place.”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“The most romantic love stories are the ones where nobody ever gets what they want because they are always pretending they don't want it.”
― Chelsea Martin, Even Though I Don't Miss You

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”
― John Muir