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“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn’t even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn’t talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.”

Yiwei Chai, The Jacaranda Years

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thinking about all the times i went through something or had a pivotal or even a mundane experience in my life then read a book or watched a movie or listened to an album and was so pleasantly surprised at how much i could resonate (almost at an alarming level) and how comforted it made me feel. it's so lovely.......the timing of the universe and how it always offers you little pieces of art like books, movies, tv shows, songs and albums and slowly nudges it your way exactly when you need those things at a certain stage in your life, perhaps to make you understand your life and your experiences better and to sharpen the thoughts you already had, or clarify ones you weren't even aware you had

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« It is often said that a person can only read about five thousand books in a lifetime. It is a small range of books given the accelerating quantity available to us. This limitation might lead some readers to rush their reading, thereby increasing the number of books. This response turns a reader into a tourist, jumping from experience to experience, noting only the highlights, being able to say he or she has done it, though not entirely sure what was done. Another response is to simply and happily acknowledge that life is indeed short, and that our smaller selection of books represents a unique expression of our character. This second choice removes the needless pressure from reading, and restores it as a great pleasure. »

— John Miedema, Slow Reading

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“The fear is not of fat. The fear is of need, of hunger, of any desire, of life itself. The fear is of being human, and as such, imperfect, and as such, just mortal. Just a body, like everyone else.”

— Marya Hornbacher, from Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.)

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Life’s better when nobody knows anything about you.

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Untitled. Tapestry - Wool, embroidery cotton on cotton warp. 12dpi. 18cm x12cm.

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meeting people & growing apart from them & meeting new people & growing apart from them too & meeting other people & eventually growing apart from them as well & on and on and on

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"2024 gonna be a vibe!"

the vibe:

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list of tender

strawberry blond by mitski

“i love you most ardently” / “you have possessed me body and soul and i love, i love, i love you” -pride and prejudice 2005

wild geese by mary oliver

two headed calf by laura gilpin

“when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible”- when harry met sally 1989

“i can take care of myself just fine” “no” “what do you mean no?” “no”- dead poets society 1989

i love you / O you entirely possses me- walt whitman “from pent up aching rivers”

state of grace (acoustic)- taylor swift

“i’ll take care of you” “it’s rotten work” “not to me, not if it’s you”- Euripides

“I’m with you til the end of the line”- captain america: tws 2014

i’d have you anytime by george harrison

together wendy we can live with the sadness / ill love you with all the madness in my soul- bruce springsteen “born to run”