it genuinely makes me sad that “happy wife, happy life” is a phrase that means “I make my wife happy because if I don’t she’ll be annoying and fuck up my day” when it should mean “I keep my wife happy because seeing her smile genuinely makes my heart light up with mirth, I love hearing her joyful laugh, I love making her happy”
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oooooooooough i love you i love you i love you!!!! hand in loving hand !!!!!!
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Ramy Al-Asheq; "Defeated, as if I won’t write another poem after today"
[Text ID: "How can you sleep while my sadness weighs down the walls of your cruelty? / My sadness tires me out"]
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“Come love, make me better than I was. Come teach me a kinder way to say my own name.”
- Andrea Gibson, from "Good Light," Lord of the Butterflies
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Hélène Cixous, from Coming to Writing and Other Essays
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— Audrey Niffenegger, from ‘The Time Traveller's Wife’ (via lunamonchtuna)
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Sharon Olds, from "Little Things"; Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002
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― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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Ilya Kaminsky, from Deaf Republic: Poems; “Alfonso Stands Answerable”
[Text ID: "Lord, such fire / from a match you never lit."]
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Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931–1934
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the best form of revenge is moving on, forgetting their existence, and enjoying life without them when they expected you to want them back
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