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— Jennifer S. Cheng, So We Must Meet Apart

i don’t feel like an adult and i don’t feel like a real person and i don’t feel like i have autonomy or agency in my life although i’ve made every decision of my free will

Growing up is actually all about realizing people don’t inherently dislike you and it’s a bit odd to assume they do

Vincent Van Gogh // Clarice Lispector

— danagray

"Would you peel an orange for me?"

I would peel a pomegranate for you.

don't care + didn't ask + i see beauty in things you wouldn't even begin to ponder

“There is a beauty in falling in love with a language—the strangeness of its sounds, the awe of watching the sea-surf of a new syntax beating again and again the cement of your unknowing. Learning to speak again can be erotic—the unfamiliar turn of the tongue, the angle of the mouth, the movement of lips.”

Ilya Kaminsky, from an interview conducted by Edward Clifford (x)

i'm like a stack of unread books but a girl

one of my favorite sensations is when you can feel the ocean nearby without seeing it

you will live and you will say the wrong things and make mistakes and people will love you anyways.

Some scary things are worth doing. Going outside, talking to people, public speaking, trying out something new, getting a job even tho you're unsure how it will go. You're a scared little plant but you can blossom into a beautiful, self assured tulip if you try being brave.

i wish i wasn’t just cognitively empathetic, like i feel so deeply for other people and their situations but every time i try and express it i sound so disingenuous

everyone needs to slowwww down and look at a fucking tree

being in love with the process and not the results is one of the healthiest things in the world

every time i feel like i haven’t done enough things to be proud of myself during the day there’s the voice of louise glück that emerges softly in my ears and says if you missed a day there’s always the next and if you missed a year it didn’t matter the hills weren’t going anywhere the thyme and rosemary kept coming back.. and i feel like life is beautiful and kind to me again

Yeah.. 🖤

fuck zodiac signs do you also kinda feel excruciatingly unlovable in every way possible sometimes

youve died a thousand times before who caaares just climb out of this grave again & again &agaian & agaian & again & again & aga

when james baldwin said “you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. it was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” I felt that big, big time

Fyodor Dostoyevsky // Alanis Morissette

“People romanticize their plans but dread the execution. the magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re avoiding.”

— nazanin mandi

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