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i love antique stores you go to check out & theyre like “where the hell did you get this”

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tenderness is in the hands ― Carolyn Forché, L’Avventura (1960), Ocean Vuong, The White Ribbon (2009), Hart Crane, Gelatin Silver, Love (2009), Ingeborg Bachmann, Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Sylvia Plath, Psycho (1960), Rod McKuen (stills by @forhandsthatsuffer)

#a personal favorite motif

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I tried not to think about it as I went about my days, and mostly I succeeded. But occasionally the memories still found their way in, through a sound I heard, a word someone uttered, or a smell I caught in the street.

—Tan Twan Eng, from The Garden of Evening Mists (Myrmidon, 2011)

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Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out, Richard Siken.

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I WISH THINGS HAD TURNED OUT DIFFERENTLY!!!!!!!!! goes to the supermarket

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#heart #its everywhere if you look #love #drivethrucore #real #my photo #aesthetic

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going to the movies alone is one of the last sacred experiences of modern society

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You wont find the same person twice, not even in the same person

- Mahmoud Darwish

#so many versions of you i will never know #....and some only i will remember

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Frank Paton - Witness my Act and Deed (1882)

#heidi kitty

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"HOW CAN ONE PREVENT A DROP OF WATER FROM EVER DRYING UP?

BY THROWING IT INTO THE SEA."

Samsara (2001) dir. Pan Nalin

#film #samsara #quote

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So you get your heartbroken. You cry until you vomit, the betrayal searing your throat until you havent a single tear left. Then one day after weeks of rain, the sun peeks through the clouds as it always eventually does. You wander your college campus and someone compliments your rain boots. A freshman confesses that they look up to you. Your professor gives you that extension you needed. A classmate from a previous year greets you by name from across the path. You get lunch from your regular vendor and she only charges you half the price as usual. And you start to realize that maybe, just maybe the most important person in your life is all of them.

#my writing #120823 #you will only matter less and less #uplifting #hope

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losing my mind over on summer crushing, by hanif abdurraqib

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I WANTED TO BE LOVED SO DESPERATELY, THAT MY FINGERS SHOOK WITH IT I AM NOT BEAUTIFUL BUT I COULD BE

-Emily Palermo

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The Night Where You No Longer Live, Meghan O'Rourke

[ Text ID: Did you love me or did I misunderstand ]