this is my sad (and not so sad) quote blog

Barbara Kingsolver from Demon Copperhead (2022)

Marie-Louise von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales

Salma Deera, from a poem titled "a girl makes a decision: part 2," featured in Letters from Medea: Poems

leonard cohen's farewell letter to marianne ihlen on a shirt

I accidentally deleted my credits while creating this & struggled to find the original creators again as I had already downloaded all of this content. Some of the credits are towards the original creators, but some are just references to where I was able to find the content after deleting my original credits. Please feel free to correct any of my credits if you see one that is incorrect 🫶🏼

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

Sandra Cisneros, from "Tea Dance, Provincetown, 1982", Woman Without Shame

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.

- Madonna in a Fur Coat, Sabahattin Ali, trans. maureen freely and alexander dawe

Undated pages from one of Marilyn Monroe’s diaries

On Friendship.

Ursula K. Le Guin, “Author’s Note” from The Left Hand of Darkness

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

Musings from Anna Fusco

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry written c. September 1936 featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1939

Danez Smith, from "summer, somewhere"