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'Why couldn't it have been you? Why couldn't you be who you were supposed to be?'

Emily Henry, from Great Big Beautiful Life

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“The world Freddy Ives lived in was built around him. There wasn't room for her.' I swallow a knot. 'What do you think he should have done?' She turns the full force of those shining blue eyes on me. 'For the one you love? Anything. You unmake the world and build a new one. You do anything to give them what they need.”

- Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

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Your heart’s broken without her, Peggy,” he said, “and mine can’t be whole until yours is.”

- Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

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Love isn’t something you can cup in your hands, and I have to believe that means it’s something that can’t ever be lost.

—Great Big Beautiful Life, by Emily Henry

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things u need to stop doing —

1. excessively worrying about things you can not change

2. leaning on external validation to feel good about yourself

3. comparing your work & life to others

4. trying to fix people as “an act of love”

5. looking for book recs on booktok

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When Franz Kafka said that he is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived, i felt that on a deep emotional level.

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One of the most profound messages I think you can learn as a people pleaser in recovery is that even if you police yourself every single moment as to not offend anyone and to be generally likable, some people will hate you and want you to be unhappy anyways simply because they can inflict harm and want to so you really might as well voice your opinions and live life loud and proud so you can attract people who will love you and understand you too

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Thinking about Lucien saying "I'm a mated male now" and how that one simple line tells us so much about him and his values. He would never look at someone else, he would never do anything with someone else, not while he's a "mated male" not while Elain hasn't rejected the mating bond. And not while he see's something worth waiting for in Elain.

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friendship can be so fleeting no wonder humans are so scared to be vulnerable . what do you mean we put our hearts and souls into people only for something as simple as time to rob our bonds … what do you mean some friendships just aren't meant to last forever?? that sometimes we outgrow people we once knew better than the lines on our palms?? when the version of them we have in our heads becomes outdated, when it means nothing that we know exactly how they take their coffee and why they don't talk about their brother. that today I mean the world to somebody who might only think of me on my birthday in a years time. what an open fucking wound.

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sometimes im like…..what is the point of all this ??? and then i hang out with the people i love, and for a brief moment, i see

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It's very easy to say that magic doesn't exist, but ultimately computers work by channeling lightning through a series of crystals, so who's really to say.

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*through gritted teeth* every day i choose to be kind *barely restraining myself from violence* i choose to have compassion *tamping down the vicious bloodlust inside me* i choose to care and to be kind and to love

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romanticising my uni assignments because i can:

- the glow of a computer screen in the dark as i sip on coffee, trying to stay awake and finish my work

- typing away to classical music playing in the background

- flipping through issued library books in between classes

- sitting on the floor of the aisle between two shelves in the library and discussing my progress with friends

- putting timers to stay focused

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The way Baxian had to suffer Danika's loss in silence because no one knew what they were to each other. He had no one to talk to, no one for support. He had to mourn in complete and utter silence

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Bryce: asking where Prince Aidas is

Azriel, who just saw a random woman materialize on his front lawn: