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Anaïs Nin, from a letter to Joaquin Nin, featured in Reunited: The Correspondence of Anais and Joaquin Nin, 1933-1940

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, from a letter featured in The Life & Letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Adlai Stevenson featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

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“you will never be too much for someone who can’t get enough of you”

— Unknown

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the intimacy of sleeping together, but not in a sexual way. the intimacy of feeling the warmth of their body in a cool room. their hands hugging you tightly. the intimacy of synchronized breathing. sleepy half-kisses. feeling safe. feeling warm. waking up and realizing how much you love them. how precious this is. finding the happiness on the tip of your fingers, brushing their hair. closing your eyes again. pulling closer. falling asleep.

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“You deserve love. You deserve good energy. You deserve to be surrounded by people who love you. You deserve to love who you are. You deserve to be at peace.”

— Unknown

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“You’re both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You’re the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You’re the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody’s something, but you are also your you.”

— John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

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love needs action, trust needs proof & sorry needs change.

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I stayed when I felt unloved and that basically sums up how bad I wanted it to be you.

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I’ll be as gentle or as violent as you need me to be.

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Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953