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Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

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Maya C. Popa, from Wound is the Origin of Wonder: Poems: “Wound is the origin of wonder”

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so much of adulthood is just grieving in secret. grieving ex lovers, grieving dead friendships, grieving your parents sinking into old age, grieving the person you thought you'd grow into. grieving cities you never got to live in. grieving parts of you that couldn't survive.

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Angela Carter, from "The Lady of the House of Love" in The Collected Stories

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Jane Austen, Emma

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L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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“We grow. It hurts at first.”

— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Witch Burning,” c. October 1961

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and suddenly

all the good things

started chasing me

~ wild faith

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Chappell Roan, Good luck babe

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“If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.”

— Tony Baskin

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Ada Limón interviewed by Lauren LeBlanc

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Ctto

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Happiness is not a checklist of objects or achievements, it's how you choose to see the world around you.

Frankie Riley, All The Dark Places