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but you see her on instagram and it was never really said that you guys aren’t friends but one day she stopped answering and you stopped texting and it’s not like the wound is a cavern but it is a diagram of what if in red letters. you want to tell her nice lipstick that’s a good color but the last time you spoke it was stilted and awkward 

how do you say goodbye, you know? it’s not an unfriend and block kind of situation. but you watch the people you once loved go on and have a life and you’re outside of it. and it’s bittersweet because of course it’s okay that you’re both thriving. but she used to be who you’d call if you needed to cry. she used to be who’d you’d be binge watching the new series with. you used to be hers, in a way, even if that way wasn’t permanent. and now she’s someone else and so are you and your friendship is clicking heart shapes next to pictures where she smiles next to people you’ve never met. you know where her birthmark is. she knows where you’ve buried your dead.

the poets and the singers and the authors write about romantic love when it ends. but nobody tells you how to get over a friend.

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Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls, Come hither, the dances are done, In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls, Queen lily and rose in one; Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls, To the flowers, and be their sun.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Maud, part XXII, stanza IX. (via funeral-wreath)

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Dancing Queens

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Death and the Maiden 1900 (detail)

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Masculin Féminin (1966) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

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“The world has changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

Velvet Goldmine (1998)

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Pretty On The Inside. 1991.

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Occasionally, however, a woman writer is told gravely, “You write like a man.” Since this is the highest accolade, presented as a judgment from above and closed to any further discussion, it would be impolite to ask, “Which man? Any man? You?”

Joyce Carol Oates, Why Is Your Writing So Violent?  (via warmhealer)

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harold and maude (1971)

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She is complete on her own. Perhaps one day she will be with someone who is complementary to her, but she doesn’t need to be made whole.

Hushed-words (via wnq-writers)

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Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)

“The film was a major influence on Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.”