m3ws-moved:

my fear regarding the fragility of life is both vastly reassuring and very scary at the same time. on one hand it’s reassuring that I am still scared of it. on the other, the fear is very real.

soracities:

“I don’t know why the memories grow while I shrink. I don’t remember what I wanted to say. I don’t want to say what I remember.”

— Dunya Mikhail, from ‘Buzz’, The War Works Hard (trans. Elizabeth Winslow)

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stay-close:

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close