Isnt It Funny How Day By Day Nothing Changes, But When You Look Back, Everything Is Different.

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.”

— C.S. Lewis

soft reminder: you’re alive. you survived the worst nights you’ve ever experienced. you picked yourself up when you were at rock bottom. you made it through the worst relapses, loneliness, heartbreak, failure and darkness in your life. when you wanted to disappear you stayed, time and time again. you can make it through anything. you will get through this too.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. 🏹

what if he’s written “mine” on my upper thigh only in my miiiiiinnd? one slip and falling back into the hedge maze, oh, what a way to diiiiiiee! i keep recalling things we never did, messy top lip kiss, how i long for our trysts! without ever touching his skin, how can i be guilty as sin?

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947

Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits originally published 1982