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August 5, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

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"Tell me the phrase."

How we feeling after today's announcement? 🙀

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it’s funny that people on twitter hate tumblr so virulently bc i get it if you are logging on for the first time in 2025 tumblr probably does suck. however i wouldn’t know because i have been carefully curating my dash experience and mutual circle since 2011 and my circle of tumblrinas taken by itself is the greatest social networking site of all time

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MY OXFORD YEAR, 2025 SOFIA CARSON and COREY MYLCHREEST as Anna and Jamie

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Okay, so I finished reading My Oxford Year, and also just now finished watching the adaptation, and I’m sad but not at all sorry to say that THE BOOK IS BETTER! The adaptation strips so many things away from the book, and changes some other things too. The movie is not bad, really, it's a light good+sad, end of the summer kinda movie, perfect for August too—I'm saying this mostly because of the way the book felt so August by Taylor Swift, but for me, personally, it just seemed to lack a lot (again, because even though the book isn’t that heavy, it had a lot in it, comparatively).

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I have learned that some of the hardest things in life are the easiest to do, if only people are capable of making it easy for themselves, and some of the easiest things in life are the hardest to do, if only people are willing to make themselves go through them.

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—My Oxford Year (2018), by Julia Whelan

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For twenty-five years I was a child. Now I’m an adult.

—My Oxford Year (2018), by Julia Whelan

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Maybe, once you come to realize that there are no answers, you learn to live with the questions.

—My Oxford Year (2018), by Julia Whelan

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—My Oxford Year (2018), by Julia Whelan

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Some people have friends with benefits. You have sex with benefits. You never pretend this is about anything other than what it is. Your benefits include everything you genuinely like about him: his voice, his humor, his mind.

—My Oxford Year (2018), by Julia Whelan

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You never make plans with him, because plans imply expectations, and for this thing to work between you, you can’t be beholden to each other.

—My Oxford Year (2018), by Julia Whelan

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You’re smart, safe, and in control of the one thing you’ve seen derail everyone else: love.

Maybe you were damaged a little bit (not a lot, let’s not overstate this). Maybe it has something to do with your family. Maybe someone left. Maybe someone died. Maybe the timing was arbitrary but critical and the fallout saw the normal adolescent goalposts suddenly moved in the night. Maybe boys became irrelevant. Maybe you don’t know what you’re talking about.

And then let’s say, just for argument’s sake, a decade later you meet this guy and he’s unlike any guy you’ve ever met before, except for one thing: he doesn’t want to be in a relationship. Which is just peaches ’cause neither do you. For you two, relationships are like decaf coffee: What, exactly, is the point?

So you ease into it.

Well. Relatively.

—My Oxford Year (2018), by Julia Whelan

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“...When you feel more than you can say, when words fail you, when syntax and grammar and well-constructed expressions are choked from your mind and all that’s left is raw feeling, a few broken words come forth. I’d like to believe those words, when everything’s stripped away, might be the key to it all. The meaning of life. I’d like to think it’s possible to remain so devoted to someone’s memory that fifty-nine years later, when all the noise of life is muted, the last gasp passing over your lips is that person’s name.”

—My Oxford Year (2018), by Julia Whelan

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“I would love to be surprised. Alas, very few people manage to do so, in the end.”

—My Oxford Year (2018), by Julia Whelan

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—My Oxford Year (2018), by Julia Whelan

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I know some people can’t fathom parabatais as more than repressed romantic relationships (and obviously on some level the books partially lean into that). But I just adore the idea of loving someone so much on a platonic level and being bound to one another at a soul level. I just think it’s magical🩷

Platonic love is so beautiful🥹