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— Thanksgiving 2006, Ocean Vuong, from 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds'

[text ID: Brooklyn's too cold tonight

& all my friends are three years away.

My mother said I could be anything

I wanted — but I chose to live.]

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I ask myself why I find it so hard to move on.

Maybe it’s because my heart rebels against the idea of forgetting you.

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“Her heart was made of liquid sunsets.”

- Virginia Wolfe

and his was pure moon dust.

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you wake up when the sun rises,

but by that time,

i’ve already expressed my deepest fears,

had two cups of coffee,

held myself in my own arms,

and painted the picture of a different lover.

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Bitches be like “fuck school” and then do all of their schoolwork anyways because they’re terrified of failure.

It’s me. I’m bitches

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We write down made-up stories to tell the truths we wish we could say out loud.

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so many songs to listen to. so many books to read. so many things to watch. so much stuff to write. i think i will sit here and decompose

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𝙾𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚛 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚎, 𝚂𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚝 𝚘𝚗 𝙰𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙸𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚢 (𝟷𝟾𝟾𝟷)

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“Don’t ever feel bad for making a decision that upsets other people. You are not responsible for their happiness. You are responsible for your happiness.”

— Isaiah Henkel (via perfectquote)

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someone please educate me on greek mythology.

it seems my obsession when i was younger has dissipated from my memory.

APHRODITE

Goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and passion. Her main powers catered towards love and desire which allowed her to easily seduce any person of her choosing. She was the subject and model for the famous sculpture 'Venus de Milo'. Aphrodite was directly responsible for the Trojan war. She sided with the Trojans in the Trojan War because Paris and her son, the hero Aeneas, were Trojans. She also persuaded the god of war, Ares, to support Troy during the war. In book III of Homer's Iliad, it is told that Aphrodite eventually saves Paris when Menelaus is about to kill him.

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Louise Glück, From Descending Figure; “The Garden”

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"I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm because I'd be rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like"

- Andrea Gibson

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𝙴𝚊𝚟𝚊𝚗 𝙱𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍, 𝙴𝚞𝚛𝚢𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚜 // 𝙼𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚏 𝙰𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚜.

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“HADES : Tell them that you weren’t hungry, tell them you followed the pomegranates seeds because they taste like blood, like love.”

— Pauline Albanese, The Closed Doors (via houseborgia)

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don’t forget the overhwhelming need to escape to Europe and sit in a dimly lit library with the smell of wonder and ink, with coffe/tea on our lips.

What other people think Dark Academia is: Pretentious rich white people who are actual geniuses, know 10 languages, have 5 research papers published, are narcissistic assholes with a nicotine addiction, etc.

What Dark Academia actually is: Young people who were told they were smart when they were little, tied their entire self worth to that, and are now trying to motivate themselves to actually do well in school, having the fourth mental breakdown this week while trying to finish 6 overdue assignments and writing a poem/story at the same time to help themselves cope as they keep getting distracted by all the books they want to read and the language/instrument they want to learn while wearing turtlenecks and tweed for the aesthetic and who are on their third cup of tea/coffee of the day.