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me, sternly, to a blank google doc: i have written hundreds of thousands of words over the course of my life. you won’t defeat me.

the cursor, blinking: |

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tomorrow’s gonna be just fine. that conflict you’re having with your friend will blow over. no one secretly hates you. the world is not out to get you. it’s ok to feel stressed out. it’s ok to crack under pressure sometimes. you are perfectly capable of enduring whatever life throws your way. everything will be alright. you’re gonna be ok.

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I'm back from work youll never believe what happened

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cat purrs are so funny they’re like hello i need everyone to know. that i am cozy

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(literature girl summer) we're back to finishing a book in two days

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Hey, babe wanna come over and fuck……..ing stab me to death

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at least once a day you should read a poem that slices you clean in half. and then you go to the post office or something

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i made your favorite dish. i made you something you’ve never tried before. i love you. i spent twenty minutes chopping. my grandmother made this for me when i was little. i made this dairy free for you. i love you. i want to eat together. the onions made me cry. i love you. i learned this recipe for you. i love you. i made this special for your birthday. i love you. i know you don’t like peppers. i love you. i love you. i love you.

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it was february and i blinked & now June is TOMORROW

#and in that time I managed to completely destroy my life and mental well-being #HOORAY

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Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, published in Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

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im like if a girl had enough

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Gregory Orr, from ‘Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence’

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Carol Ann Duffy, Ritual Lighting: Laureate Poems; from 'The Beauty of the Church'

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I say less. Perhaps because—I suspect—I feel more. If I were to put words to it, we’d be in deep waters indeed. 

Emma Donoghue, Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre; from ‘Since First I Saw Your Face’

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Please don't ask me for relationship advice unless you are prepared to receive some truly upsetting information because some people are ready for the "He's exhibiting the literal textbook signs of a psychological abuser and you need to get away from him before he successfully cuts you off from your support network" talk and some people aren't

#sending this out into the universe #in the hopes that good things will come of it