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“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

— W. S. Merwin, Separation

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“Death’s inevitable, but that doesn’t make it an answer. Even very old people, very sick people, cling to life because it’s precious.”

— Nora Roberts, Sacred Sins

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But nothing works forever if you refuse to allow for flaws.

— Nora Roberts, Sacred Sins

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‘The “size” of human suffering is absolutely relative.’

—Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (trans. Ilse Lasch)

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— Baek Sehee, I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki

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But to know one’s wounds and to pity oneself for them are two different things. Self-pity isn’t necessarily bad, but perhaps people think badly of it because those who self-pity tend to concentrate on their own suffering and ignore the pain of others.

— Baek Sehee, I Want to Die but I still Want to Eat Tteokbokki

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― Louise Glück, October

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“How do I look away now that I have seen you?”

— — Rachel Mennies, from “April 18, 2017,” The Naomi Letters

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is anyone else disgusted by the enormity of their desire or is it just me & richard siken

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oh emily wilson translation of the iliad we’re really in it now

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— Fredrik Backman, Anxious people

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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

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Anaïs Nin, from Ladders to Fire; “Cities of the Interior”

Text ID: I’m insatiable, you know. I’ll ask you for the impossible.

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Vogue, Annie Lord, I Feel Like Men I’m Dating Won’t Like My Fully Unfiltered Self

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“I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.”

— Sara Quin

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there is a love in which i will always know you, just incase you forget.

love elizabeth s.

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-Roland Barthes