The One With The Pediatrician FRIENDS ✧ S09 E03

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944-1947

a cottage full of vines + old books , what a dream 🌿

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from The Selected Works; “Memoirs of Martynov,”

Atlantic Ocean. This evening, right now. Very chilly. December 9, 2020

― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

[text ID: I am what I am and I have to accept myself; I was born like this, in this city, with this dialect, without money; I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.]

𝔞𝔟𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔩𝔦𝔣𝔢

You know, until I heard Pope Francis describe the gaze of Jesus that makes Peter break down crying in Luke 22:61-62 as one of compassion and understanding, I didn't realize I had been unconsciously assuming that it was one of accusation and "I told you so."

"The same man who lovingly held me during our vacation and told me he couldn’t imagine his life without me now wanted everyone to believe I was a screaming, crazy shrew who had driven him away."