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I don’t feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and I’m getting dreadfully fretful and querulous. I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time. Of course I don’t when John is here, or anybody else, but when I am alone.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

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Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able—to dress and entertain, and order things.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper

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— R. Arnold

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Heal, so when somebody tries to love you – you let them.

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I am not meant for casual love. I was born for soul consuming love and obsession.

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— Emily X. R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After

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— Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

the suns getting eaten by space algae and this is the plan

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Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir

mood of all educators around the world

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ON GOODNESS // hard times, ethel cain // captain curly's character section on the tvtropes mouthwashing page // the greatest, billie eilish // kuras' profile on the touchstarved wiki // sept 15 1983, the mountain goats // excerpt from “the hour of the star”, clarice lispector // polarize, twenty one pilots // the philsophical concept of “ren” // king, florence + the machine

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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