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flowers growing in my lungs wish i could tell you what you mean to me i’ll rip them out to give to you a bouquet of unsaid i love yous

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“she had her boyfriend block me so she must be insecure or something😂”

no whore.. you just don’t respect boundaries

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The Astronomy Series #7

In the end i believe scientists are hopeless romantics desperate in love with the idea that the world makes sense. Scientists have broken hearts and by combining toxic elements and reading the stars, they are able to write poetry.

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even if now i saw you,

only once,

i would long for you

through worlds, worlds.

— Izumi Shikibu, as collected in The Ink Dark Moon (tr. Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani)

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in another world we shall understand it all

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“To get born, your body makes a pact with death, and from that moment, all it tries to do is cheat.”

— Louise Glück, from A Slip of Paper

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you wear an ancestor’s face. you look like a woman you’ll never meet. in that mirror, there’s thousands of you. and in the bath, when you look down, she looks back, shaking and deforming in the ripples as she lies beneath the surface.

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Therapy: cleaning your room to your fav album

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the purrfect friend

#snoopy #peanuts #charlie brown

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today, all of humanity’s dreams are cursed somehow

— Hayao Miyazaki

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nothing good happens when you let the past consume you

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— how are you?

— miserable, darling, as usual. perfectly wretched.

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the books that the world calls immoral are books that shows the world its own shame

— oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray

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the line “the stars will go out before i forget you” goes off so hard. so romantic. i would literally ascend to the 4th dimension if someone ever said it to me.

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Don’t bother me, I’m trying to cover up the fact that reading is the only thing keeping me sane.

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imagine being the subject of someone’s poetry

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no you live in a society, i live in an unrealistic idealised romantic daydream about fictional characters