British writer Virginia Woolf said: "There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy

The world can be harsh, so find those pocketful moments of joy. If it is in reading a beloved book, watching a favorite film, listening to an album, playing a video game, enjoying a cup of tea or coffee, tending a garden, gazing at the sky - gather these delights into your heart.

Let’s normalize sitting with someone in their darkest hour without imposing upon them to feel “good vibes only” as if that’s actually going to hold them in their current experience of grief-Dr. Jen

As your goth therapist, I urge you to get lost in the woods. I don’t care where you end up, that’s between you & the woods

We need a return to analog culture: handwritten letters, seeing films in the cinema, reading books, in-person visits, time in the outdoors. We weren't meant to spend our whole lives online. The joys of tangible living are something no one can take from you.

I'm in shock. Rest in peace, beautiful soul. 🖤

Thanks a lot, Richard, for publishing my piece of microfiction on Paragraph Planet. I'm so happy I discovered this website/platform. The archive is full of literary gems. 🖤

The scent of coffee and cigarettes at an independent café whilst you study. For this vibe, I'm willing to pay for overpriced coffee.

More than 15 years after the film's release, he can still quote the protagonist verbatim - the morally dubious man who inspired him to seduce a girl half his age. Yet, when his friends want to know his desert island movie, he can't bring himself to say it: An #Education. #vss365

how can you call it #history when you relive it daily, wearily, bravely your voice strained, resounding with the silent curses, still resting on you after all these years how can you call it history when there's no historiography when you're still hunted, and hunter #vss365

my love left me a note, no ordinary one - that much is clear. it reveals a poet's eye for detail a novelist's sense of depth. it brims with semicolons; ampersands & line breaks & astute alliterations. but is it #literature? #vss365

“A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.” — Albert Einstein

Thanks so much ✨️✨️

It is Holocaust Remembrance Day and I would like to post some thoughts. My first thought is that we do not remember anymore. My second thought is that we have never remembered well enough. People have become quiet, perhaps fearing that remembering 6 million dead entails some

It's so funny to me that Mary Shelley, her husband, John Polidori, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story and she wrote fucking Frankenstein. Imagine losing a competition that badly. Imagine just doing a silly little competition with your

“Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.” ―Philip Roth

We can all sing along, the Librarian said. People went back to the moon, and back home to earth again. Our hopes and dreams went with them. Let that sink in. #vss365 #sink