Isabella Grace > Recent Status Updates

“…but i needed that first night to be alone. i needed to be alone so that he could come back.”

“because here the sun is shining silently, far from that unbearable and indeterminate thing. because here i am barely a person, and nobody knows about who i was. in a place belonging to me and me alone, so over abundant with life that it’s functionally nothing, happily indifferent to me except where it demands to be touched.”

owning line got me like 😭 “she was born for (and was always seeking) a world of immense gentleness.”

“living happened until it didn’t. there was no choice in it. to say no to a new day would be unthinkable. so each morning you said yes, then stepped into the consequence.”

"how do we move through all this beauty without destroying it?"

"recovery is made of words, and words have all these rules. how can anything be so limited touch something as big as whatever the fuck a 'higher power' is? how can it get rid of the big ball of rot inside me? it feels like this giant sponge sucking away anything in the world that's supposed to feel good. what words can touch that?"

loving all the talk of divinity here so far

“she doesn’t seem as taken aback as i’d expected and is anxious to help. i recognize myself there. they say that im an obliging, considerate person, but its only an appearance; the truth is that she’d do anything — within reason! — to feel loved.”

"...the heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy place. It might not even exist at all."

omg Silver... ☹️ why am i sobbing about a fictional bear rn

"her fist, and last mistake, was to trust a human who had his attention on something else."

“and now that you don’t have to be perfect you can be good” 😭😭😭

"but wait! i've made a mistake! how could these makers of so many books that have given so much to my life -- how could they possibly be strangers?"

"...it is precisely how I feel, who have inherited not measurable wealth but, as we all do who care for it, that immeasurable fund of thoughts and ideas,...and the responsibility to live thoughtfully and intelligently....Thus the great ones (my great ones, who may not be the same as your great ones) have taught me - to observe with passion, to think with patience, to live always caringly."

good god this book is gonna destroy me

this book is going to destroy me and i don’t know if im ready for it

:holy places are dark places. it is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood."

"some say the loving and the devouring are the same thing."

“don’t let me be mean.” JUST RIP MY HEART OUT AND THROW IT ON THE GROUND AND STOMP ON IT WHY DONT YOU OMFG

"of this there can be no question -- creative work requires a loyalty as complete as the loyalty of water to the force of gravity."

"attention is the beginning of devotion."

"the law was designed to save, not to destroy." how is it that a judge from the 1800s is more intelligent and conscientious than judges now?