Louise Glück, a few years before winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, in an email to one of her students

i love it when books make me feel things that i never physically and personally felt before. like the chill of a winter breeze. the vividness of spring. the rustle of fall. there are so many things i have yet to experience; i don't think a lifetime could encapsulate them all.

― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

i will still love you if i were a worm 🪱

Amazing.

A man asked a gardener why his plants grew so beautifully. The gardener said: “I don’t force them to grow. I remove what stops them.”

Astrid Lindgren once said, "I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me." This is exactly how I write, too.

had a straight dude come to my house and he was SO impressed by the simplest things. my beautiful jewels, my fancy tapestries, my chest full of opium, my eternal youth and beauty, my rotting painting in the attic.

lavender haze.

We are all bearing the consequences of each others’ childhoods. Children’s psychological safety is a collective responsibility

Tonight is the full Moon

If babies understood embarrassment, most of them would never learn to walk or speak because of the amount of failure required to improve. This was one of our first lessons in life but somehow, we forgot

The moon has a 28-day cycle & people want to 'him' her? Please.

normalize not being mean and short tempered with children. It’s their first time on earth.

My favorite parallel in the show, sunset and sunrise with each other 🥹

green waves.