sometimes love is just doing things without having to be asked, making a cup of tea for someone as they’re working, packing an extra lunch because you know they’re rushed for time. Love doesn’t have to be expressed in grand gestures, to me, the little gestures of love matter more.
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“in March I’ll be rested, caught up and human.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath vol 1: 1940-1956
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you don’t have to belong everywhere
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Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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Ruth Awad, from “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion”
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― Margaret Atwood, You are Happy
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when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”
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when 23 year olds say “im getting old” cause they get excited by mundane things…for the love of. we used to get excited by BOXES as toddlers. maybe we’re just reverting to our childlike joy did u ever think about THAT.
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i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and began again in the morning.
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
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Botanical illustrations
by Beatrix Potter
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Grief is the only proof that I love and I love well. Love and grief are actually intertwined with each other and as "Akif Kichloo" once wrote, "the opposite of grief is not laughter or happiness or joy. It is love. It is love. It is love."
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Athena Nassar, from "Love Is Not Always Song, but the Swelling"
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fyodor dostoevsky (the brothers karamazov), charles bukowski (a vote for the gentle light)
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you have to choose healing again and again
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healthy love exists and it’s worth being patient for
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Marina Tsvetaeva, excerpt from Poem of the End, Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Angela Livingstone)
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