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All I can hear now is the sound of my own heart, opening and closing, opening and closing, opening.

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (via the-book-diaries)

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I don’t pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you’d imagine. I’m interested in other people’s experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can’t explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (via the-book-diaries)

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Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy and Midnight All Day: A Novel and Stories (via the-book-diaries)

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I do know my own mind…The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island (via the-book-diaries)

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Even when I am alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.

L.M. Montgomery, Anne’s House of Dreams (via the-book-diaries)

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My favourite time of the year ☕️

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Shout-out to people studying with a mental illness.

You’re doing this with half your brain tied behind your back and that’s pretty badass

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