#ok

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#bray #breath #deep #deep breath #heart

I look through the cage...an absolute beauty of yours... ↗

— Ankur Kumar Shah

#appreciation #beauty #cage #caged-bird #caged-view

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting. ↗

— Kim Young-ha

#inspirational #introspection #kim #korea #korean

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork. ↗

— James Beard

#cuisine #food #pork #food

The big uncookable sections of who we are, they’re the ones I love to taste the most.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cook #cooking #eat #food #identity

I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#crafting #doing #i #i love #love

The age of the book is almost gone. ↗

— George Steiner

#almost #book #gone

I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me. Ah, yes, let me count your cracks. Let's see, one hundred, two... yes, you'll do nicely. A cracked companion makes me look more whole, gives me something outside myself to care for. When I'm with whole, healed people I feel my own cracks, the shatters, the insanities of dislocation in myself. ↗

— Julie Gregory

#memoir #childhood

If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#minorities #america

When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the “10 second heartbreak.” That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember… ↗

— Nina Guilbeau

#heartbreak #heartbroken #loss #mourning #heartbreak