" I crave you in the most innocent form. I crave to say good night and give you forehead kisses and to say that I adore you when you feel at your worst. I crave you in ways where I just want to be next to you and nothing more or less."
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Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (trans. Richard Howard) [ID in ALT]
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'The old gods are everywhere,' she says. 'They swim in the river, and grow in the field, and sing in the woods. They are in the sunlight on the wheat, and under saplings in the spring, and in the vines that grow up the side of that stone church. They gather at the edges of the day, at dawn, and at dusk.'
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab
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“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
— Sylvia Plath, “The Bell Jar”
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Memory's funny, isn't it? We remember some things out of nowhere, but so much of what happens, we never think about again.
Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
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"Don't bend; don't water it down;
don't try to make it logical;
don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.
Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly".
— Franz Kafka
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I am a lover without a lover. I’m lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself .
Warsan Shire
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The love for books is a paradise.
Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
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When you make someone fall in love with the darkest parts of you, there's nothing you can do that will scare them away. They will be yours forever because they already love all the fucked up bits and pieces of you.
Haunting Adeline - H. D. Carlton
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