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A throe upon the features- A hurry in the breath - An ecstasy of parting Denominated "Death" - — Emily Dickinson

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— T. James (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔢𝔫𝔡, 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔡𝔬𝔢𝔰 𝔦𝔱 𝔪𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯?

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We all possess a wild beast in us which only comes out when we're alone or with someone whose beast is as wild as ours

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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

– Anna Quindlen

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ᴄʟᴀꜱꜱɪᴄᴀʟ ᴏᴜᴛꜰɪᴛꜱ

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Poseidon: Ah, yes. Here we have a beautiful couple...  Hades : I really care about your feelings!  Persephone: I really care about YOUR feelings!  Poseidon, turning his head: ...and then there's the disaster couple...  Hera: YOU NEED TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO ME INSTEAD OF BEING AT THE HOSPITAL!  Zeus: I WOULDN'T HAVE TO SPEND SO MUCH TIME AT THE HOSPITAL IF YOU STOPPED INSISTING ON FIGHTING EVERYONE WHO COMES WITHIN A FIVE FOOT RADIUS OF YOU!

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𝐇𝐨𝐭/𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭

You are 100% hot, 21.25% crazy, which places you in the marriage zone.

Marriage Zone: People in the Marriage Zone are attractive and only a little crazy. As such, they’re socially intelligent, responsible, and self-directed — but also very rare. While Unicorns are still the most sought after, people in the Marriage Zone also embody first-rate scores in physical hotness and lack of mental craziness, which is why they usually have their pick of mate. Another thing to keep in mind is that people in the Marriage Zone actually exist, whereas Unicorns are only rumored, mythical beings.

Finally, close examination of the Hot/Crazy matrix reveals that it is possible for Marriage Zoners to be actually Hotter than Unicorns, though Marriage Zoners will always be slightly crazier, by definition.

tagged by: @sturmherzpeitsche (I did it! first try!!!)

tagging: @pomegranateveins (your turn, now! <3) @kayladelevigne @wildcardmilow @capturedscenery @alaskancold

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Virginia Woolf, in a diary entry dated 27 February 1926, from The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. III: 1925-1930

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"[The Iliad] avoids all the obvious highlights of the traditional story, including the Wooden Horse. It does not start at the beginning — with the Judgment of Paris, the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, the abduction of Helen, or the muster of ships at Aulis — or end with the fall of the city. Instead, the action takes place over a few days in the last year of the war — neither the beginning nor the end. A brief and ostensibly trivial episode — a squabble between two Greek commanders — becomes the subject of a monumental twenty-four-book epic.

Moreover, The Iliad eschews the obvious way for Greeks to tell the Trojan War story: as a conflict between 'us' and 'them.' The Trojans are not dishonest foreigners, despite the fact that Paris abducted his host’s wife. Implausibly, they speak the same language and worship the same gods as the Greeks.

The poem is ancient from our perspective. But it came at the end, not the beginning, of a long poetic tradition. Whoever created The Iliad used the myths, tropes, and techniques developed by many generations of oral poets, and reinvented them to create an extraordinarily original and surprising written epic."

- Emily Wilson, from the introduction to her translation of The Iliad, 2023.

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May Sarton, from Recovering: A Journal

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Howdy! A little Update from the Farm. We're having the time of our lives. Drinking Whiskey and coffee in the early morning hours and espresso martinis in the evenings with the best friends I could possibly think of.

Without you, this land wouldn’t feel so healing. Without you, it would take forever to build a home. But with you, it already is one, even if the wallpaper still peels from the walls and the floorboards creak beneath our feet. Thank you for making this place one that gives peace and promises adventure. You will forever be a part of this home. And I will forever be grateful to you.

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Edgar Allan Poe, from Tamerlane & Other Poems of E. A. P.; “The Sleeper,”

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May 27, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973

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