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[ancientlove]

1 year going strong

at this point i am more attached to some of my teachers than i am to most of my relatives.

[ancientlove]

on loneliness

Amy Dunne // Nickie Zimov // Carol Lee, To Die For // Marie Alsing // Anne Sexton, A Self Portrait in Letters // As Tears Go By (1988) dir. Wong Kar Wai // Fyodor Dostoevsky in a letter to his wife Anna Dostoevsky, 28 August 1879 // Aron Wiesenfeld // Margaret Atwood, from "Thoughts From Underground"

[ancientlove]

— vladimir nabokov, in a letter to his wife [24 march 1937] from letters to véra (trans. olga voronina & brian boyd)

[ancientlove]

— Taylor Swift, from All Too Well (10 Minute Version)(Taylor’s Version)

[ancientlove]

you ask for my love to be unconditional. you ask for my forgiveness to be infinite.

but some things are not mine to love and surely some things are not mine to forgive.

mother.

27.11.21

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27.11.21

[ancientlove]

I don’t know what it is about sentences that begin with ‘and’. I love them. And I thought of you. And it’s been a long day. And I love you. And and and

[ancientlove]

Life wouldn't be the same without poetry, books, and the moon. In fact, it would be unbearable.

[ancientlove]

journal entry - 11.23.21

[ancientlove]

Benjamin Alire Saenz, Aristotele and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

[ancientlove]

19.11.2021

[ancientlove]

all on my own. i was in love with that phrase.

benjamin alire saenz, aristotele and dante discover the secrets of the universe

[ancientlove]

"We never realize how frozen we are until someone starts to melt our ice"

— Bridgett Devoue

[ancientlove]

after being out of school for 5 months this is still true

at this point i am more attached to some of my teachers than i am to most of my relatives.

[ancientlove]

unexpected turn of events: said man turned out to be a fictional character

in 2021 i am going to fall madly in love with a pretty boy with curly hair just to get my heart broken and write a novel about my sorrows. no further explanation will be given.

[ancientlove]

Euripides, from “Orestes”, An Oresteia (trans. Anne Carson)

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Franz Kafka