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"Come, my beloved, let us go forth to the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards, let us see if the vine has budded, whether the grape blossoms are open, and if the pomegranates are in bloom-there I'll give you my love."

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no-one talks about the loneliness of entering your 20s. most of us are forced to leave home and start a life of your own, often leaving your family as well as your friends behind. and then in college you find it hard to make new friends and build long-lasting relationships with people. and you find yourself calling home less and less. and you realise there's no going back to highschool time when there was always food in the fridge and snacks in the kitchen cabinet and fruits in the bowl.

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“i am back to wearing sweaters in summer. it’s a question of intimacy. that which will do the work of love for those who have grown weary of loving me.”

— Hanif Abdurraqib, from “What a Miracle That Our Parents Had Us When They Could Have Gotten a Puppy Instead,” in Fortune for Your Disaster

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She is sweet like a gentle dream.

Robert Walser, from Fairy Tales; "Snow White" (trans. from the German by Daniele Pantano and James Reidel)

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Robert Walser, from Fairy Tales; "Cinderella" (trans. from the German by Daniele Pantano and James Reidel)

[Text ID: Cinderella: I'm all yours, so frightfully yours / that you must lend me your body / to hide myself deep inside it.]

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no such thing as wasting your 20s your 20s are for recovering from whatever the fuck happened to you as a kid so that youre ready to get weird with it in your 30s

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Perhaps the World Ends Here, Joy Harjo ( @atarqxiia ) | The Light The Living See, Ada Limón | @soracities

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Maria calls me and she says she's getting married. She asked me if there's any extra weight I carry? And do I think about the one that got away?

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Ada Limón, from “The Hurting Kind,” in The Hurting Kind

[text ID: Before my grandfather died, I asked him what sort / of horse he had growing up. He said, / Just a horse. My horse, with such a tenderness it / rubbed the bones in the ribs all wrong. / I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers. / I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.]

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Victoria Chang, from “Love Letters,” in The Trees Witness Everything

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“You can’t remember what they did to you. Your loneliness isn’t welcome here, you know, but still you walk the dream-lit village, looking for someone gentle enough. There must be an animal trapped under your shirt, you think, because little claws scratch against your chest and you throb there, but you’re afraid to look because looking means remembering.”

— Sara Eliza Johnson, from “Parable of the Unclean Spirit”

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Pretending to sleep so you'll be carried to bed.

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"De-ai fi tu salcie la mal

M-as face rau la umbra ta .

O stea pe cerul de opal

De-ai fi, in noapte m-as schimba

Si-acolo unde esti o viata as sta

In calea ta, in umbra ta ...

De-ai fi in zbor o randunea

M-as face cuib pe-un ram de pom

Sau primul fulg de nea

De-ai fi, m-as face din zapada om

Si-acolo unde esti o viata as sta

In calea ta, in umbra ta."

"De-ai fi tu"- Mihaela Mihai.

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"I have buried you in every place I've been

And you keep ending up in my shaking hands"

Justin Vernon- "A song for a lover of long ago"

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"doar ale lui erau toate cântecele de pe lumea aceasta."

"Circe"- Madeline Miller

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