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“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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ari b. cofer, Unfold: Poetry + Prose

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Oh, how many tears I should've poured, on that dinner table!...

Poetricismic

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No, we're not soulmates. This is not divine intervention. And this is most certainly not chance. I willed this. I knit the threads of fate myself until they spelled your name.

I love you intentionally. I love you with every bit of conscience I was born with.

— marsadist (via twitter)

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“I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.”

— David Levithan, Every Day

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“The deeper the wound, the more private the pain.”

— Isabel Allende, Paula

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“The way people treat you is a statement of who they are as a human being. It’s not a statement about you.”

— Unknown

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“Even now, as broken as you may feel, you are still so strong. There’s something to be said for how you hold yourself together and keep moving, even though you feel like shattering. Don’t stop. This is your healing. It doesn’t have to be pretty, or graceful. You just have to keep going.”

— Maxwell Diawuoh

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Here is my hand, he said. But that was long ago. Here is my hand that will not harm you.

Louise Glück, from Descending Figure: “Epithalamium” (via intopermanence)

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I felt like crying but nothing came out. It was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. But I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Charles Bukowski (via thoughtkick)

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I don’t care what you do to me, but I don’t want you to hurt me. I’ve had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.

Haruki Murakami (via thoughtkick)

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The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via thoughtkick)

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― Margaret Atwood, You are Happy

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“To get over the past you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it… it’s over. It can hurt you no more.”

— Mandy Hale

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“Be willing to walk alone. Many who start with you won’t finish.”

— Unknown