I couldn't sleep, so I got up at 2:45am.

Tea in hand, I turned to reading, and found this lovely quote.

This should be everyone's goal.

Imagine a world made a little bit better by each person's individual acts of goodness. That's the kind of world worth fighting for. That's the kind of love—the kind of hope—we all need.

"He sits crouched in the chair with his head down on the desk, and his eyes closed, in a state of misery and peace." - Oryx And Crake by Margaret Atwood

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Comforting Thought: Other people’s opinion of you doesn’t matter #selflove #selfcare #selfesteem #quote #bookquote #YungPueblo

http://contentcatnip.com/2025/04/16/comforting-thought-other-peoples-opinion-of-you-doesnt-matter/

I worked on my Rollover series documents today, and while hunting up names in stories I came across a line I love that I forgot I'd written. So I made a picture for it, because that's what I do, and now I'm sharing it, because I like to share.

Big thanks to the #ScribesAndMakers spreadsheet prompt for reminding me I had a workbook to update.

Oh, hey, this counts for Apr 12 SaM too!
Self-promo: this is from my newish story collection:
https://books2read.com/RelicsFromATravelingShow

“…In Time, these People are able to forget ev’rything. Be willing to wait but a little, and ye may gull them again and again, however ye wish, – even unto their own Dissolution. In America, as I apprehend, Time is the true river that runs ‘round Hell.”
— “Charles Mason,” Mason & Dixon, Thos. Pynchon

This is an insightful read. Less of an instruction manual (thank god), and more revelations about how being an INFJ and writing often go hand-in-hand.

Much of it is anecdotal, which I'm not overly fond of. However, there have been a couple of gems worthy of my quotes journal. Like this one.

Enjoy the journey, and let your inner light shine brightly through your words.

Fancifying words with pretty graphics makes me happy. It's always my goal to bring joy to others, too, so I'm sharing some of the pics I've made from my own books.

In case it's not your thing, I'll tag them all with #BookQuote for ease of muting.

Here's the first one.

“They know things from so deep and far that we have forgotten that we have forgotten that we have forgotten them.” -- from 'Impossible Creatures' by Katherine Rundell; illus. Virginia Allyn

"I come here to listen, to nestle in the curve of the roots in a soft hollow of pine needles, to lean my bones against the column of white pine, to turn off the voice in my head until I can hear the voices outside it: the shh of wind in needles, water trickling over rock, nuthatch tapping, chipmunks digging, beechnut falling, mosquito in my ear, and something more-something that is not me, for which we have no language, the wordless being of others in which we are never alone." - from 'Braiding Sweetgrass' by Robin Wall Kimmerer

"Firmness, I may observe, was the grand quality on which both Mr. and Miss Murdstone took their stand. However I might have expressed my comprehension of it at that time, if I had been called upon, I nevertheless did clearly comprehend in my own way, that it was another name for tyranny; and for a certain gloomy, arrogant, devil’s humour, that was in them both." - From David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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"Colour seemed flung down anyhow, anywhere; every sort of colour, piled up in heaps, pouring along in rivers—the periwinkles looked exactly as if they were being poured down each side of the steps—and flowers that grow only in borders in England, proud flowers keeping themselves to themselves over there, such as the great blue irises and the lavender, were being jostled by small, shining common things like dandelions and daisies and the white bells of the wild onion, and only seemed the better and the more exuberant for it." -- from 'The Enchanted April' by Elizabeth Von Arnim

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"Christmas doesn't like me. It's a conspiracy. Christmas is a conspiracy to make single people feel lonely." - Michael, Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

Make your own story today. If you're flying solo, don't be afraid to start a story with someone new.

There are already enough conspiracy theories out there. #JoinIn

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"More and more, he comes to realize that people fall into three camps: those who hardly, if ever, see beauty, even when it strikes them between the eyes; those who recognize it only when it is made apparent to them; and those rare souls who find beauty everywhere they turn, even in the most unexpected places." -- from 'There are Rivers in the Sky' by Elif Shafak

This dialogue in the book I am reading is golden though:

"Julian." She pressed shooing me away with her hand. "A little privacy."
"Seriously?" I stared at her. "We share a soul."
"Not a toilet. Let's keep a little mystery alive."

#AmReading Proust. Just finished book 3, now up for number 4.

At times it was even slower than slow and it's a looong read, but all in all I loved it!

« Each of us is indeed alone »

https://bookwyrm.social/book/609982/s/a-la-recherche-du-temps-perdu-tome-3-le-cote-de-guermantes

you are not in control, you are in collaboration.

From "one liners for the full moon" in Fables and Spells by adrienne maree brown

I think more people need to think like this. Imagine if we all thought that we were collaborating instead of controlling.

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