Micaela Wilner > Recent Status Updates

“to know too much can make one old too soon”

having to look past how much she refers to god and the creator, but open to this challenge in my pursuit for creative autonomy and a regular disciplined practice without needing compensation as motivation

“but now, eyeing brooklyn through the window…she wondered if her books had gotten it wrong, whether Mama had been right all along when she’d said the world would be disappointing regardless of where she stood.”

“experience the joy of doing. and you’ll glow in this peaceful way. your friends will be very, very happy with you. everyone will want to sit next to you. and people will give you money!”

he is so funny im dead hahah

“anger and depression and sorrow are beautiful things in a story, but they’re like poison to the filmmaker or artist. they’re like a vise grip on creativity. if you’re in that grip, you can hardly get out of bed, much less experience the flow of creativity and ideas. you must have clarity to create. you have to be able to catch ideas.”

“It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”

i need adrienne lenker on repeat, a blunt, and a body of water

“Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty. It was impossible to know—were persimmons his favorite fruit, or had they just now become his favorite fruit because there they were, growing in his own backyard? He had certainly never mentioned persimmons before. My god, she thought, he is so easy to love.”

“Tell me i don’t know you, Sam thought. Tell me i don’t know you when i could draw both sides of this hand, your hand, from memory.” 🥲

“How many times have you rejected the possibility of love because it didn’t look the way you expected it to? Perhaps some characteristic was missing you were sure you must have, some other trait was present that you never dreamed of accepting.

Clean love is love without expectations. You’ll probably never let go of every single attachment.
But maybe you can let go just for an instant”

V U L N E R A B L E

my heart is hurting

ginger with blue eyes and no filter becomes enemies to lovers with big bearded angsty ranch man. becomes step mommy to his daughter.

AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAAHAHAHHAHAH

im totally fine. honestly these books are mid but they’re fun.

“Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.”

“The student who graduates from a writing program and goes on to…renounce writing. You and I were familiar with the type. There seemed to be one in every class, and we always wondered: Why was it so often the one with the most promise?” pg. 75

this may or may not take me a year to finish