“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.” ― Aleksandar Hemon, …
the silent treatment
“When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ― Rumi — maybe maybe, you don’t love me anymore maybe you can’t contain all of me tears and …
lunch break
“I like to prowl ordinary places and taste the people- from a distance.” ― Charles Bukowski — “you need to get the booger sucker”, one dad says to another dad to be he smiles …
Someone famous
“The square root of I is I.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister — I was walking down the familiar street, during the familiar hour, to the familiar coffee shop. I was treading on the clouds of …
Self assessment
“Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That’s me: I’m not that.” ― John Green — I often find myself scrambling. Scrambling in my whirlpool of thoughts for … I …
ugly ceiling
“There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars — Tapping away on my keyboard one work-from-home Tuesday afternoon, I took a rich sip …
a vacation from life
“To be, or not to be: that is the question” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet — i wonder if one can take a break from being alive a vacation from existence a mere moment to not …
what is self worth?
“Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart — I’ve been thinking about self-worth and what quantifies …
smell of summer rain
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — the steamy air worms through narrow pine needles perching one drop at …