A FIRE BAPTISM ENGULFED IN MY SHAME

“And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.” ― Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions : "to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones."

If Sufjan stevens liked Illinois so much why didn’t he write a song about the time my brother lost his iPod nano in the Chicago children’s museum ball pit and I wished on the first star I saw that night that it would be under my pillow when I woke up the next morning so I could give it back to him and when it wasn’t there I became disillusioned from the idea that the universe would manifest something for you if you wanted it terribly badly enough because it was fair the wishing star couldn’t give me a pet horse like I’d previously wished but this was such a simple and earnest request