When Sue Zhao said "I think I wait for people to hurt me and when they do I feel a certain smugness at being right. And, after that, I just feel pain." And when Orson Scott Card said "I have lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it." And when Amish Tripathi said "if you spend enough time with anything, you start liking it, even sadness." And Oscar Wilde said, "a burnt child loves the fire." And when Georges Bataille said "no greater desire exists than a wounded person's need for another wound." And once I read somewhere that some people seek out painful relationships and experiences because pain feels more like home to them.
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I'm in love with involuntary validation of a relationship. My best friend saying "our spot", my brother saying "our cookie recipe" or my mum saying "our song". Like YES I LOVE YOU TOO. I'm so soft for it.
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“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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I crave warmth everywhere. In the morning sun or in sunsets or in music, art, places, just warm energy. When people recommend you songs or movies or tell you how much you mean to them, when people say I love you out of the blue, or a smile from random strangers, people going on walks with you or a picnic date with friends, when somebody talks about the person they love or the times when you are laughing uncontrollably with a group of people you love, I crave that warmth.
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