YOU KNOW THIS FEELING?

CHOCOLATE DOESN'T JUDGE. CHOCOLATE UNDERSTANDS.

WISH FOR TODAY

Sometimes I’ll be talking to someone, and I’ll be like ‘Yeah, I’ve been really lonely lately’ and they’ll be like ‘Well we should hang out!’ and I’m like ‘No, that’s not what I meant. That’s not what I meant at all...

BTFL

I still felt sad, and a little incomplete. I suppose with so many things suddenly getting better, the things that were still missing hurts even worse.

 —Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

CLARE ELSAESSER. PAINTER. CALIFORNIA.

YOU KNOW THIS FEELING?

ABOUT COMING HOME

To come home from another home is a weird feeling, because people expect you to be the person you were when you left, and that’s impossible. You expect things to be exactly the same as when you left, and that’s impossible. Maybe it’s impossible to even truly come home once you’ve gone away because of those changes. Coming home is strange, because now that place is just a tiny bit less of a home.

- Alex Brueckner

PEOPLE SEE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE

WISH FOR TODAY

So yes, I laughed. I laughed at the pain and the futility and the frustration and the heartache to keep it separate from me. And while it may seem like insanity to you, it is the thing that prevents it,  for me.

—Iain Thomas, The Upsidedowness Of Everything

INSP

Why does forgiveness seem so hard sometimes, even impossible? 

Because forgiveness is the loss of something the ego doesn’t want to lose: someone else to blame for unhappiness.

- Jeff Foster

TASTY

There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood… And understanding someone else.

— Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle  

YOU KNOW THIS FEELING?

D’METRIUS RICE. PAINTER. USA

ABOUT BEING READY

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

- Hugh Laurie 

BTFL

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.

— Vladimir Nabokov