Libby

“striving to look carefree and happy can interfere with your ability to feel so.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror

“Death's not a separation or alternation or parting it's just a one-handled door"

- from "Mrs Simpkins”
― Stevie Smith, All The Poems - Stevie Smith

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“The default assumption tends to be that it is politically important to designate everyone as beautiful, that it is a meaningful project to make sure that everyone can become, and feel, increasingly beautiful. We have hardly tried to imagine what it might look like if our culture could do the opposite—de-escalate the situation, make beauty matter less.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion