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[...] the very idea of you alarms me [...]

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, from 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses', tr. Ernest Dowson

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A KIND OF MUTUAL HAUNTING

Rare Monk, ‘Happy Haunting’ Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights The Great, 1x10 ‘The Beaver’s Nose’ Fiona Apple, ‘Slow Like Honey’ Judith McNaught, Almost Heaven @sunsbleeding​ (x) Beyoncé, ‘Haunted’ Fleetwood Mac, ‘Silver Springs’ Theodore Roethke, On Poetry and Craft Naiche Lizzette Parker, ‘Halloween’ Iris Murdoch, An Unofficial Rose

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Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “The voice I owe to you”

[Text ID: “Only you can bring me / to you. That’s why I wait for you.”]

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با آن همه دشمنی که کردی بازآی که دوستی همان است

With all that enmity you’ve shown, Still, come back, for Our love is still the same.

— Saʿdi

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#literature #poetry #quotes #aesthetics #sad #love

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why is it so much easier to fall asleep on the couch unintentionally than to fall asleep in bed intentionally?

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i wanna DROWN in love

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“The best gift you are ever going to give someone - the permission to feel safe in their own skin. To feel worthy. To feel like they are enough.”

— Hannah Brechner

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I hope destroying me fixed you. Then, at least, all of it wouldn't have been for nothing.

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[text id: i am too little, and too much, and never enough.]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am tired of making a religion out of my suffering’.

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I had met the absolute love of my life in you, from the moment I first saw you, i knew.

But I owed karma a debt, and I paid it in full.

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“May the answer to our prayers fall like rain… O Lord.”

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LITERALLYYYY!!