Bio
Sometimes I'm offline for a bit for health reasons.
Currently 98% bedbound with severe ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis), which is a common, disabling neuroimmune condition. I also have POTS and migraines.
I'm nineteen! 🫶🏻 she/her, Australia 🇦🇺
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– some random quotes and poems –
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
— Emily Dickinson (1861) "Hope" is the thing with feathers
dum anima est, spes esse
— Cicero (49 BC)
"do not let your illness define you"
is like telling a drowning person
to not be defined
by the sea
— Katie Leeming (2026) 'Sea Glass', I Once Was, Line Langager
— Lucas Jones (2026), I Still Believe in Miracles
— Lucas Jones (2026), I Still Believe in Miracles
be clear, please:
— Carl Sagan (1980)
The cold never lasts, my darling. It just teaches the heart how to burn.
— Raye (2026) Click Clack Symphony
if these words only make sense to me
perhaps it doesn't matter
I don't write to package up my pain
into a palatable pattern
I write to peel the plaster back
on all that lurks beneath
I write so that
just for a short moment
I can breathe
— Eleanor Rose (2026) 'Tapestry', I Once Was, Line Langager
I just don't want to deal with this right now. I'm taking a holiday from dealing. Happily vacationing in the land of 'not coping'.
— Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Self-help
How to stop time:
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.
— Matt Haig (2016) Reasons to Stay Alive
You all have a little bit of ‘I want to save the world’ in you. That’s why you’re here. I want you to know that it’s okay if you only save one person, and it’s okay if that person is you.
— Unknown
You have to forgive yourself for not knowing what only time could teach.
"You have two choices
I'll lay them out here;
Be hurt in love
Or be hurt in fear
That's the buy in of life
It hurts while you're here"
"So I'm sorry for that thing that ruined your life. Except it didn't, it just sort of f-d up your night. And I know what you're thinking
But I'll hold you to that when the birds stop singing
If you're listening now then the phone's not ringing
So the crash so far much have not happened
And you're still just driving and not yet crashing
It's in your hands. You choose what happens.
"So I'm sorry for that thing that ruined your life.
But the longer you let it
The sooner it might."
— Lucas Jones
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
— Blaise Pascal (1657)
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Current music / albums:
This Music May Contain Hope — RAYE
Everything I Know About Love, Bewitched, A Matter Of Time — Laufey
you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love — Olivia Rodrigo
Girl Of Your Dreams — Ashe
Messy, The Art Of Loving — Olivia Dean
It's OK, Still Got Dreams — Nightbirde
Top Tracks — Dolly Parton
🪶 Poetry Anthology some of the quotes are from: I Once Was, an anthology of poetry about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis by Line Langager
That's all.
— The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
