The Moon That Turns You Back, Hala Alyan
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Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Edward Cohen written c. September 1950
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Being in a healthy relationship really taught me there's no such thing as 'that's just the way I am'. When you truly love a person you work on those toxic traits, you learn to communicate, you actively listen to each other's thoughts & feelings – you adjust, grow & heal together.
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March 18, 1925
Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927
[volume 3]
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I don't miss him anymore. Most of the time, anyway. I want to. I wish I could but unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.
Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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The Moon That Turns You Back, Hala Alyan
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The only thing getting lit this weekend is my scented candle.
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“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”
— Kahlil Gibran
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had a wonderful morning breakfast date with my beau, who’s always happily indulgent of my small things wants. we talked and i wrote my morning journal, and then left at half past 9am. now i’m back at home, doing all of my laundry because i will not be able to do so in the next week because i’ll be on chronic PM duty (6pm-6am) + daily overtime for conferences so i’ll be on survival mode 🌷
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