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May you have at least one person who will love you when you are not so lovable. When you're anxious and nervous. When you mistreat others. When you no longer crack jokes and have no more stories to tell.

-Shorouk Mostafa Ibrahim

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I'd cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I'd write love poems to the parts of yourself you can't stand. I'd stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I'm not afraid of your dark.

- Andrea Gibson,

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Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.

- Ally Condie

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...I write 'I am an ocean' I mean (I cradle dead things)(I am a soundless grief) (I am always reaching for shore; always trying to escape my body) (I am in between land; in between homes) (I have no land to call home) (I am too busy being the God of my own grief; too busy keeping everything else alive)...

-Donte Collins

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LOVE AS VIOLENCE VS LOVE AS SOFTNESS

Ada Limon, The Good Fight // Mary Oliver, West Wind // Danez Smith, Bare // Sappho, Fragment 58.25-26 // Mitski, I Don’t Smoke // Ashe Vernon // Hozier, Cherry Wine // Shauna Barbosa, GPS // Richard Siken, Little Beast // Chen Chen, Summer [The sunflowers fall…] // Warsan Shire // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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𝓞𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓪 𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽 𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝓼𝓴𝓮𝓭 𝓶𝓮 𝓱𝓸𝔀 𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓪 𝓹𝓸𝓮𝓶 𝓱𝓪𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓘 𝓼𝓪𝓲𝓭 𝓲𝓽 𝓬𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓫𝓮 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓭 𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓮 𝓪 𝓹𝓸𝓮𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓫𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓭'𝓼 𝓹𝓱𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓷𝓾𝓶𝓫𝓮𝓻.

-(from Heather Christle's tweet)

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I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else.

-Bernhard Schlink

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Some of the kindest souls I know have lived in a world that was not so kind to them. Some of the best human beings I know, have been through so much at the hands of others, and they still love deeply, they still care. Sometimes, it's the people who have been hurt the most, who refuse to be hardened in this world, because they would never want to make another person feel the same way they themselves have felt. If that isn't something to be in awe of, I don't know what is.

-Bianca Sparacino

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posts that make me want to rip my heart out part 5

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I've decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that's all I can do.

-Haruki Murakami

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You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can't love us all the time. Sometimes we're born into families who don't know how to love us properly. They do as much as they can but the rest is up to our friends. They can love you all the time, without judgement. At least the good ones can.

-Ryan O'Connell

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All your fury is to hide a fragile heart.

-Ghassan Kanafani

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I'm in pain because the day is ending and somehow I am never healing.

-Anne Sexton

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I can't forget you, not because I have a strong memory, but because I have a heart that never denies those who settled in it once.

-Mahmoud Darwish

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Where did you get those big eyes? My mother. And where did you get those lips? My mother. And the loneliness? My mother. And that broken heart? My mother.

-Warsan Shire