And I can barely tell the sky from the shoreline.

Carrie Fisher, from The Princess Diarist.

Text ID: I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I’ve always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I’ve always had, I could almost call it by my own name, it’s so like me.

‘I took my grief down to the river to drown it there but it was the grief that carried me and it won’t be bringing me home.’

— Erica Jong, from “Bitter Herb,” Witches (as seen in Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected)

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

Mary Oliver, ‘north country’

— Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

— Mary Oliver, from “A Settlement”