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I hope my followers don't expect anything of me, I'm only here to be insane.

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Random but when I come on tumblr to chill or just be away from other socials, I feel like it’s the online version of me going to my room and just doing my own thing to be away from everyone else.

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Silas Denver Melvin, from Grit: Poems; “Twenty”

[Text ID: “you’re so polite with your sadness. you don’t want to ruin this for anyone. you’re good at that.”]

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— Lucie Brock-Broido, Stay, Illusion

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“Yes. Yes. Yes. I hear. Your silence is loud.”

— Anne Sexton, from a letter to Philip Legler featured in A Self-Portrait in Letters

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Sigh one can dreammmmm

The type of love that feels like drinking a hot cup of coffee in a cold weather, like your favorite sweatshirt; comforting and warm and homely.

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You lose the one person you talk to everyday, what happens after that?

How do you move on?

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“Someone somewhere is searching for you in every person they meet.”

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looking at the moon while thinking of you

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Posting again-weirdness is the best part of us

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One day soon hopefully In Shaa Allah

what’s it like being married?

kind of like drinking a steaming cup of coco on a cold day. comforting. warm

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E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

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Give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.

Warsan Shire

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I pray you do too 🤲

One day soon you’ll live the prayer you dream and pray for In Shaa Allah.

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“We plan and He plans. Surely Allah is the best of planners”

Little child, when will you understand. God’s plan for you are always better than your plan for yourself.

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on love as conversation

alice oseman radio silence (via @liriostigre) \ bell hooks

kofi