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18.06.25 —summer is here & so is my renewed love for life!!!

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the human experience is crazy because you could be in your normal routine, minding your own business, and then you meet someone who is made so violently of colour and light that all minor distractions and artificial dopamine could never compare with the interactions of this one stranger, and then you go back to your routine and never see or speak to them again

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“That’s life. You’re always making decisions, taking paths that lead you away from the rest before you can see where they end. Maybe that’s why we as a species love stories so much. All those chances for do-overs, opportunities to live the lives we’ll never have.”

—Emily Henry, Book Lovers

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the last couple of days I've been noticing way more buds than usual on the branches of trees and bushes. I think something big is about to happen

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Art snobs are actually a thousand times less annoying than people who respond to everything with "it's not that deep bro"

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23.02.25—life lately, making time for friends, for books & for journaling

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There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.

Edit- I added the visualizer for this piece on my YT, check it out here

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

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@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

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— via knjfedog

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Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

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heart shapes month started guys omg happy heart shapes month

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twenty years across the sea

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Ellis Nightingale

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Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“If someone asked me “What are the signs of love?” I would have said without hesitation, It’s the familiarity and the removal of cost, And to find yourself not having to lie, and the embarrassment removed between you two, and see yourself acting in your nature without trying to be something else so she likes you, And that you two keep silent and the silence gets delicious, And that one of you two talk and listening gets delicious.”

— Mustafa Mahmoud

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🌷June wrapped— spring is finally here! a good month for sharing meals with friends, soft slice of life books and lovers’ walk hikes