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My favorite part about being sapphic is when the things I love about other women become things I love about myself. One day I was tracing another woman’s stretch marks in a dim bedroom light. And then, seemingly by accident, I was doing it to myself in my bathroom mirror. I loved the feeling of a full hand of flesh when I grabbed a woman’s hips, and then mine didn’t need to be so skinny anymore. I looked at a woman’s lower stomach pudge and thought it was so soft and cute, then never wanted a flat stomach again. Loving women can be so healing when you come from a world that doesn’t.

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Nicolai Fechin - Nude in the bathroom (1923)

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Marie-Joseph Clavel - The lake of love - the weeping willow (ca. 1918)

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Credit: Jeniferr Prince

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"I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be a person who liked books. But there is a difference between liking books and needing them. I needed books."

―Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

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"A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection."

-The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente

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“Time is not a straight line, it’s more of a labyrinth, and if you press close to the wall at the right place you can hear the hurrying steps and the voices, you can hear yourself walking past on the other side.”

— Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015), from “Answers to Letters”, in: “The Great Enigma”, translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton

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Maybe we’ll find something much greater…

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being a sleepy girl and a reader is really hard

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Foster Books, selling old and rare books for over 50 years in Chiswick, London. (@polly.florence IG)

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Chester, in county Cheshire, England. (@duffers102 IG)