when mitski said i am a forest fire and i am the fire and i am the forest and i am a witness watching it i stand in a valley watching it and you are not there at all
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Riding an Uber through London at 5 am crying listening to mitski
“I was born with a knife in one hand and a wound in the other.”
— Gregory Orr, from “Like Any Other Man,” in The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems
“And I love you with pity and horror”
— Adrian Pounescu (1943-2010), from “Crazy White”, translated by Cristian Butnariu
The most comforting thing is, I will get away from him, actual hell contained in one person, as long as it takes and as hard as it is and as slow of a process as it may be, I will get away from him, and live a life where he is not even a shadow anymore, but he never will, he will live in the hell he creates for himself for the rest of his life and I can’t imagine anything scarier or more miserable
One thing Ive learned is that most things are a lot more mundane than they seem or than we’d like to imagine, and that’s ok. There’s depth and beauty and power in the simple truth of mundanity. A patch of grass doesn’t need to be anything more than a patch of grass to have meaning.
There’s a Terry Pratchett quote I really like about this:
“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that’d happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn’t a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time…”
–Terry Pratchet, Small Gods
when bjork said “you’ll be given love, you’ll be taken care of. maybe not from the sources you’ve poured yours. maybe not from the direction you are staring at. twist your head around. it’s all around u” SHE WAS RIGHT!!!!!!
I hate how “daddy issues” is used to call women crazy and un-datable rather than bring up the fact so many fathers are abusing their daughters to the point of emotional breakdown
when uma thurman said “i’ve been waiting. to feel. less angry. and when i’m ready. i’ll say what i have to say.”
