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never before joined across the cold airless terror of space…

#sex #poetry #melissa crowe

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IVE 𓆩♱𓆪 IVE SWITCH CONCEPT PHOTO

#ive #magical girl #kpop

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CORDELIA CHASE on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: ↪ 1.010 "Nightmares"

#buffy the vampire slayer

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PAST LIVES (2023) dir. Celine Song

#dreams #past lives #language #movies

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love is not as transient and conditional as some of you guys think it is. when people tell you they care about you, they don’t change their mind ten minutes later because you said something weird or annoying. the people that love you will still love you when you do things that upset them. love doesn’t instantly disappear like that

#love

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being in love with the process and not the results is one of the healthiest things in the world

#important #motivation

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01.01.2023

twice at the airport today🐰

#twice #rabbits

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#light #stars

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Holed up in the north country for the month of May, a May which saw but four days of sunshine. The rest of the month was solid gray, drizzling or pouring rain, rendering everything green. Rushing and verdant. In short, a nightmare. Each day I took long walks in my yellow poncho, looking for blue, for any blue thing.

-Maggie Nelson, Bluets

#maggie nelson #prose

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Our parents always spoke of the moment they found out—of hearing that three girls had gone into the woods and only two had emerged, knowing right away that it was their girls, because it was a small town and because they knew the way the wilderness called to us, the way we slipped down deer trails and searched for the tracks of unicorns beside the creek.

Knowing that three of us had gone into the woods. Not knowing which two had returned.

― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

#kate alice marshall #prose

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If they'd known the truth about Persephone, they would have thought we were strange, wicked little beasts — and we were. What little girl isn't? ― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

#kate alice marshall #girls #girlhood #prose

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There is a wilderness in little girls. We could not contain it. It made magic of the rain and a temple of the forest. We raced down narrow trails, hair flying wind-wild behind us, and pretended that the slender spruce and hemlock were still the ancient woods that industry had chewed down to splinters. We made ourselves into warriors, into queens, into goddesses. Fern leaves and dandelions became poultices and potions, and we sang incantations to the trees. We gave ourselves new names: Artemis, Athena, Hecate. Conversations were in code, our letters filled with elaborate ciphers, and we taught ourselves the meanings of stones. Beneath a canopy of moss-wreathed branches, we joined hands and pledged ourselves to one another forever—a kind of forever that burns only in the hearts of those young enough not to know better. Forever ended with the summer. It ended with a scream and the shocking heat of blood, and two girls stumbling onto the road. The way Leo Cortland told the story, he thought at first that the sound was some kind of bird or animal. His spaniel's ears perked, and she barked once, staring intently into the trees. The truth was he knew right away that the sound belonged to a child.

-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

#kate alice marshall #prose #girlhood

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#dreamscapes #fish #water

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She hated the way roses smelled, their sweetness too fragile. She wanted a garden of evergreens. A garden of stones. A garden of swords.

- Keirsten White

#Keirsten White #prose

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Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle Vincent van Gogh, Garden at Arles (1888)

#shirley jackson #prose #worlds

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would you love me more if i had wings?

#wings #words

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"My number one rule for romance is surprise. If I bring Deb flowers every Tuesday, yeah, it's nice, but is it romantic? So much of life is about your routine. Once I pretended I was still on the set. I called Deb and said, I'll be back late tonight. Then I appeared hours earlier than she expected. And she got such a shock. I'd made reservations at our favorite lunch place. It was three hours before the kids finished school, and it was awesome because it was unplanned."

- Hugh Jackman

#hugh jackman #interviews #romance #quote