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“I miss you more than I remember you.”

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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"I am so good at being alone until I remember what it's like to be loved"

{Words by Lily Rain @lilyrainpoetry on Instagram}

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So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

— Stephen Chbosky. (via. luciferifilia)

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“I fantasise about rejecting the apologies that i know will never come.”

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me, sternly, to a blank google doc: i have written hundreds of thousands of words over the course of my life. you won’t defeat me.

the cursor, blinking: |

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English words I hate.

Colonel. The fact that it's pronounced the same as "kernel" ?

Viscount. If you don't know how to pronounce this word, 1- I don't blame you and 2- please google it. If you DO know how to pronounce it, explain to me WHY.

Haphazard. Why is it not pronounced "hafazerd" ?

Queue. This word really only needs to be two letters.

Wednesday. The OG enemy of non-foreign English speakers… Who decided on this spelling? Why is it not "wensday" ?

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Tress of the emerald sea by Brandon Sanderson; my favorite quotes.

"The girl wondered why men so often used food to describe women's features. There was a hunger to such men that was best avoided."

"She felt less like a mere human being, and more like a human who was merely being."

"Yes, each of these problems seemed equally impossible. But somehow less impossible than imagining the rest of her life without him."

"He puts on a brave front, pretending to be just an ordinary idiot. But I assure you that he's instead the extraordinary kind."

"...The curse would activate, driving me back and prompting me to do something monstruous, like wear socks with sandals."

"Most people never live, Tress, because they're afraid of losing the years they have left...years that will be spent not living. The irony of cautious existence."

"If you're of those to whom these things are extremely important, you have my sympathies. It's never too late to develop a personality."

"Nothing motivates quite like a deadline. Particularly, one that emphasizes the dead part."

"...A certain number of people in the population with more nerves than neurons."

"Enjoy memories, yes, but don't be a slave to who you wish you once had been. Those memories aren't alive. You are."

"And I know that you, my dear, are living proof that someone doesn't need to be the least bit funny to be an utter clown."

"If that sounds like hypocrisy to you, well, we prefer to call it politics."