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patricia lockwood

Ugly, Bitter, and True by Suzanne Rivecca

the first people to ever use terms of endearment for each other must have been so in love i'm in tears just thinking about it

Tracy K. Smith, from “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”, Life on Mars

Summer evenings at Godrevy, 2017

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My dad made a friend on Orcas Island…💚

He is handsome. But I think your Gilbert is awfully bold to wink at a strange girl.

sincerity is genuinely really hard like…….. if i have ever told you anything heartfelt out loud i have had to battle like 7 layers of embarrassment & repression to do that

is your bed made? is your sweater on?

I’ve decided every woman who spends most of her time alone is one of my soulmates

“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”

— A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

i woke up today with an image of Andrew smiling and i had to get it out of my system,,,

is diplomats son the greatest song ever written. no. but also like it might be……

it eats me alive.

i love oxford comma by vampire weekend because it starts with “who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma” and ends with him complaining about his girlfriend lying

“Unworldly, transparent, whimsical and detached, caring very little what people say,”

— Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. September 1918 featured in “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume I (1915-1919),”

“God, am I like the rest after all?”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves 

“I could never love anybody as much as I love you, Anne.”

“Do you really love me?”

“Course I do.”

Anne Of Green Gables (1985)

the smarter u are the more men arent funny 

i ONLY know how to express love in either dramatic, multi-page, 19th-century-style love letters OR single memes presented without commentary so jot that down

i can’t believe cedric diggory asked voldemort ‘who are you’ lmao. like i know he got killed straight after but still. iconic

“Remember me, my angel, remember me,”

— Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Judith Hemschemeyer, from “Don’t Frighten Me,”