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Louise Glück, from October

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Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

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“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”

— John Steinbeck, East of Eden  (via thatkindofwoman)

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Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

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Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

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“Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over.”

— Marjorie Celona, Y. (via thebronzemedal)

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“Among the lonely, you are perhaps the loneliest of all, You come so close to love But it eludes you.”

— James Kavanaugh (via fakeville)

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Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You

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Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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“The way the river water rushes by, never to return. The way the days go by, never to return. The way somebody comes back, but only in a dream.”

— Mary Oliver, from We Should Be Well Prepared; Red Bird, 2008

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But my rage was there, it was there, it pretended to sleep but it never slept, the merest touch of a feather was enough to bring it howling, roaring out.

– James Baldwin, Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone

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cloud strife splitting headache moodboard

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the overwhelming feeling of sadness sometimes when someone treats me with kindness

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Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead

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Denise Levertov, from O Taste and See: New Poems; "The Old Adam,"

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Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath; "Three Women,"

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Chelsea Dingman, from "Blood Moon"