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You’ve grown into someone who would have protected you as a child. And that is the most powerful move you made.

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“I had a room to myself as a kid, but my mother was always quick to point out that it wasn’t my room, it was her room and I was merely permitted to occupy it. Her point, of course, was that my parents had earned everything and I was merely borrowing the space, and while this is technically true I cannot help but marvel at the singular damage of this dark idea: That my existence as a child was a kind of debt and nothing, no matter how small, was mine. That no space was truly private; anything of mine could be forfeited at someone else’s whim.”  ― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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controversial opinion but i should get what i want sometimes

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are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

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Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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Heather Havrilesky, How to Be a Person in the World

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Even water, with enough persistence, can smooth the jagged edges of a mountain.

Maybe love, without limits, can  smooth the jagged edges of a broken heart.

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― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

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Emoji Spell to help you speak confidently! (I used yellow & sunflower bc they promote positivity & confidence)

🗣like to charge🗣

🌻reblog to cast🌻

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Don’t know who this quote is by but it’s been stuck in my brain like a leech for days

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*violently sobbing* I KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER I KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER KNOW ITS FOR THE BETTER

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Born to read my own story, forced to write it first.

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“When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included?”

— Mary Oliver, from Pen And Paper And A Breath Of Air in “Blue Pastures” (via adrasteiax)

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- Blythe Baird

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Reblog to have something lgbt happen to you this summer

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I just posted this on my Instagram @greywashpoetry check it out!

“I will learn from this

When I love another

I will relish in her hips

The taste of her skin

And the softness of her hair

I will love makeup again

And YouTube will not be you

I will listen again to the songs

And fall in love to new ones

I will learn

To never take for granted

Gifts from the universe

Because

Darling

That’s what you were

A star plucked just for me

And I’m sorry I snuffed you out

I am

But I will grow

I will learn from this

And I’ll savor her kisses

And the lilacs in her breath

And the way lace cups her just right

I’ll think of you sometimes

But

Only sometimes”

I Will Learn From This, Original, Unedited

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The tension builds

Threatens to boil over

Finally I tell you

The gravity of your lips

How they pull me in

And before I can finish my sentence

You lean in

And I am full of electricity

I smile into your kiss

And gather your hair in my hand

You pull me on top of you

And I have to grip the sheets to keep myself contained

Your sweater lifts

And I feel the warmth of your skin

And every part of me

Wants every part of you

I know I keep saying this can be whatever you want it to be

And it can

But god

Do I want everything