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― E.M. Forster, Howards End

[text ID: The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.]

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— Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”

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spooky season is the epitome of happiness.

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“I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.”

~ Jean Rhys

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I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.

- Kyffin Williams

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Lift me to thy lips, Life, and once more Pour the wild music through me

from Life by Edith Wharton

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I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

— Fredrich Nietzsche

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Walks in the streets arm in arm; entering vintage and old shops to buy a record or two, some old books that are going to stay unread, forgotten on a shelf; drinking tea together; slow kissing by the fire; reading poetry and quotes to each other; visiting a new art exposition; watching that film again, lines known by heart; feet touching on the sofa, both immersed in a book; decorating for autumn as rain is pouring and leaves are falling (but actually waiting for Christmas); drinking good wine in the kitchen, cooking together; matching jumpers and cardigans; running on crunchy leaves; loving each other softly.

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the feminine urge to drop every responsibility and run away to a random city just for the thrill

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gloomy sunday

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Things I would like to have, immediately:

Autumn temperatures

Apple cider with cinnamon stick

Pumpkin picking

Weather under 70 degrees

Halloween decorations

Horror movies on tv

Lack of heat

Walks in the graveyard

Ghost hunting expeditions

Cool, breezy, chilly, brisk, refreshing, no-humidity air

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i’m not “lazy” i’m just a fragile victorian maiden. i can only handle 1-2 mildly taxing activities a day before i have to put myself down for a nap until dinner

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The Witch of the West is Dead (2008)

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Heal yourself first.

The rest will come later 🌿