I wondered what I’d learned, and found myself remembering something Gene Wolfe had told me, six months earlier. “You never learn how to write a novel,” he said. “You just learn how to write the novel that you’re writing.”

Neil Gaiman, on finishing American Gods (via msbookish)

Picking five favourite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.

Neil Gaiman (via first-player)

Ugh fucking bodies. Always screwing up our lives.

every tiiiiiiiime.

though to be fair, at least it’s something (usually) predictable and not life-threatening or particularly life-hindering in any way besides the aforementioned sadness.

*clinghugs the Jez*

at some point this year my body decided it would be REALLY FUNNY to schedule my period on the worst possible weekends

such as three-day holiday weekends

and weekends I intend to do nothing but lounge around and get it on

C’MON BODY YOU KNOW BETTER THAN THIS