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"I think I'm going to roll my eyes right out of my head if I keep this up, haha. Of course he's vegan, of course he wipes the knife handle with a disinfectant wipe... (????) 🙄🙄🙄" — Oct 20, 2026 05:03AM
"I think I'm going to roll my eyes right out of my head if I keep this up, haha. Of course he's vegan, of course he wipes the knife handle with a disinfectant wipe... (????) 🙄🙄🙄" — Oct 20, 2026 05:03AM
“What do you want to do when you leave?” I ask as I lean against his desk. When you leave. We keep asking each other that, as if our lives are on pause right now and that nothing here counts.
“The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.”
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“Because the only thing that can ever truly destroy a dream is to have it come true.”
― Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
― Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
“We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.
Yet if we could scorn
Hate, and pride, and fear;
If we were things born
Not to shed a tear,
I know not how thy joy we ever
Should come near.”
― The Skylark and Adonais - With Other Poems
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought.
Yet if we could scorn
Hate, and pride, and fear;
If we were things born
Not to shed a tear,
I know not how thy joy we ever
Should come near.”
― The Skylark and Adonais - With Other Poems
“Next time, we fail better.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“The garden is one of the two great metaphors for humanity.
The garden is about life and beauty and the impermanence of all living things.
The garden is about feeding your children, providing food for the tribe.
It’s part of an urgent territorial drive that we can probably trace back to animals storing food.
It’s a competitive display mechanism, like having a prize bull, this greed for the best tomatoes and English tea roses.
It’s about winning; about providing society with superior things; and about proving that you have taste, and good values, and you work hard.
And what a wonderful relief, every so often, to know who the enemy is.
Because in the garden, the enemy is everything: the aphids, the weather, time.
And so you pour yourself into it, care so much, and see up close so much birth, and growth, and beauty, and danger, and triumph.
And then everything dies anyway, right?
But you just keep doing it.”
― Bird by Bird
The garden is about life and beauty and the impermanence of all living things.
The garden is about feeding your children, providing food for the tribe.
It’s part of an urgent territorial drive that we can probably trace back to animals storing food.
It’s a competitive display mechanism, like having a prize bull, this greed for the best tomatoes and English tea roses.
It’s about winning; about providing society with superior things; and about proving that you have taste, and good values, and you work hard.
And what a wonderful relief, every so often, to know who the enemy is.
Because in the garden, the enemy is everything: the aphids, the weather, time.
And so you pour yourself into it, care so much, and see up close so much birth, and growth, and beauty, and danger, and triumph.
And then everything dies anyway, right?
But you just keep doing it.”
― Bird by Bird
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