Tess

“She understood that the best and only good thing about death was that it was final. That there could be no negotiating with death was its one mercy, its only relief”
― Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

“sticks & stones
never broke
my bones,
but words
made me
starve myself
until
you could
see all of them.
-skin & bone”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“It is the flowers in the soul of the person who put them there that make us happy and enliven our hearts. The beauty of the flowers is a clue to the beauty of a human heart. They are a keyhole into a human heart.”
― Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

“I feel as if I had been in the world a thousand years, and I trail my life behind me like an endless scarf.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Sea-Gull