I told him I was easily seduced by people who laughed at my jokes and he said he was easily seduced by people who were smarter than he was.
Sally Rooney, Conversations With Friends.
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When he says "you're an angel" but Hozier said "Honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago" from the perspective of the Devil.
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My nemesis asked me for the hand sanitizer today like his life completely depends on it. I'm telling you besties, he possess the same disorders that I do!!!
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'What is this torture for?' And the voice would reply,
'It's just there. It's not for anything.'
— Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
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I live in two worlds and a long as we are apart, I always shall.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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We break. We put ourselves together. The cracks are the best part. ,
Cleopatra And Frankestein, Coco Mellors.
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"You broke it!" she screamed. "You broke me!"
"You were already broken!" yelled Frank.
"Not like this."
Cleopatra and Frankestein, Coco Mellors.
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Me: My comfort author is J. D. Salinger. ♡
Salinger: Shut that slutty little mouth of yours Goddamnit!
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Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
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Because everyone loves someone, and anyone who loves someone has had those desperate nights where we lie awake trying to figure our how we can afford to carry on being human beings. Sometimes that makes us do things that seem ridiculous in hindsight, but which felt like the only way out at the time.
—Fredrik Backman, Anxious People.
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Partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian
partly because of my love for you,
partly because of your love for yoghurt
partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches
partly because of the secrecy our smiles
take on before people and statuary.
—Frank O'Hara, Having A Coke With You.
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I know right? 😩
people who keep saying swifties will make conversation with friends popular
they will ruin it if they get engaged with it like:...
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I felt like a stranger to myself, like I was no longer living my life but instead being propelled through it by interesting forces beyond my control.
— Sally Rooney, Concord 34.
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“Still, he would lie down and die for her at any minute, which is the only thing he knows about himself that makes him feel like a worthwhile person.”
— Sally Rooney, Normal People
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