“sometimes since i've been in the garden i've looked up through the trees at the sky and i have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. so it must be all around us. in this garden - in all the places.”

• the scent of rose incense, yearning and waning.

“all freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there, as when they free wild animals into nature preserves only to contain them yet again by larger borders. but i took it anyway, that widening. because sometimes not seeing the bars is enough.”

20 | she/her | aries sun | leo moon | capricorn rising

"be a little kinder than you have to."

• remain gentle, no matter what.
• a relationship is an experience and you deserve to experience a safe and gentle personality.