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“What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner. You seek it like a dream, and as soon as you find it, you become its prey.”

— William Gaddis, The Recognitions

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made a new account where i’ll be posting lyrics (that touched me so badly that it altered my brain chemistry)

here lies the soundtrack of my heart, woven from the songs that shape me.

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“Also everything returns, but what returns is not what went away—”

— Louise Glück, from A Travel Diary; Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems, 2021

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my last two days of being a blonde have arrived after twenty-three years of life. since i am just a girl, this change, inevitably, means that everything that has formed my soul (before 21/12/24) has happened to another me. i will be redesigned. i will be reassembled.

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"how to prevent smile lines" there are a thousand more important things to do with your time than postpone evidence of life's joy on your face

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Heretic (2024)

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i absolutely love this because after such a long time of telling myself that i never had ‘time’ to read, i finally was like fuck it i am consiously going to make time to start reading again

« If you have to ask yourself where you will find the time to read, it means the desire isn’t there. Because no one has the time to read. Children don’t, teenagers don’t, adults don’t. Life is a perpetual obstacle to reading.

“Reading, I’d love to, but what with my job, the kids, the housework, I don’t have the time.” “You have so much time to read—I envy you!”

How is it that Ms X, who works, runs errands, raises kids, drives her car, loves three men, goes to her dentist appointment, is moving next week—how is it that she finds the time to read […]?

Time spent reading is always time stolen. Like time spent writing, for that matter, or time spent loving. Stolen from what? Let’s say, from the duty of living. Which is probably why the subway—this stinking symbol of the duty of living—is the world’s largest reading room.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

If we were to consider love from the point of view of our schedule, who would bother? Who among us has time to fall in love? Yet have you ever seen someone in love not take the time to love?  I’ve never had the time to read. Yet nothing has ever stopped me from finishing a novel I loved. 

Reading doesn’t belong to the societal organisation of time. Like love, it is a way of being. The issue is not whether or not I have the time to read (no one will ever give me that time) but whether or not I will gift myself the happiness of being a reader. »

— Daniel Pennac, Better Than Life

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you don't have to throw it all away to become new again

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& you know what it actually IS lifechanging to smile at strangers & say please & thank you & goodmorning & compliment someones outfit & help someone in need & be more accepting of loving other people just because they are other people!!!

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U have to b really sweet to urself or your heart will rot out of ur chest forever

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the nicest thing you have ever done for me is make sure that i didn’t end up with you and for that i am eternally grateful

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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

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bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

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brooding men who cannot communicate their feelings if their life depended on it are only hot when they're fictional. if i have to deal with one in real life i will curse him and pray for his downfall every night before i go to bed

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Jeanette Winterson, from "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal," publ. in 2011

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