“Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was. Can you hear me yet? Can you read me?”
On Earth We're Briefly gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
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Maybe we need every answer in the world to survive a single question: How long do we have each other?
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that james baldwin quote where he says, “it took many years of vomiting up all the filth i’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before i was able to walk on the earth as though i had a right to be here.”
Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is, "I know this feeling. I was here before"
— Don DeLillo, White Noise
i wish i was one of those girls from classical mythology……. i could just turn into a cypress tree or a crystalline lake and be done with it
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