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Sofia Coppola directs Kirsten Dunst in The Virgin Suicides (1999)

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Alex Dimitrov, from “Love,” in Love and Other Poems

[text ID: I love August and its sadness.]

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via

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Mary Oliver

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The Craft (1996).

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Photography: Egypt. Alexandria. 1993.  Photographer:  Harry Gruyaert

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bite the vampire first to establish dominance

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Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright

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yes

The feminine urge to not finish a book because I'm emotionally attached to it and don't want it to be over.

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nothing is as tender as annotating your favourite books. it’s like leaving a piece of your heart on the pages for somebody else to find.

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― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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my favourite thing about the secret history is that the main character literally gets shot and it’s not even a major plot point

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Alcohol is cool, but have you ever had a classics student friend group that you commit crimes with? Me neither, pass the bottle.

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All my teenage years, I had bottled up anger and grief and promised myself I'd never cry but when I sat down with her hands in my hand and looked her in the eye, all the anger turned into tears. I sobbed for hours and she sat there, rubbing my back. That's when I saw. Growing up is also tearing down walls, it's also letting go of the anger.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned