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Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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"How can I ...?", Eghishe Charents (translated by metamorphesque)

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Normalize seeing someone's lack of effort as their lack of interest in you regardless of what they tell you. Giving you all of the right words, but none of the right actions is called manipulation. When a person wants to be with you, they prove it.

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— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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"I am tired. These people make me feel I have a hole in the middle of me."

— D.H. Lawrence.

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"There's something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold."

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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"I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn't speak."

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals.

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"I know intense love always leads to mourning."

— Louise Glück, excerpt of Metamorphosis

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"I'll adore you, as a drowned person does the sea."

— Renée Vivien, "The Ransom,"

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"I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get."

— Charles Bukowski.

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Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

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"I think it's beautiful how a star's light travels the universe, long after it dies. That's what I want to be in this world Someone whose light lingers on after I'm gone."

– John Mark Green

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"I think too deeply about everything. I still don't know if that allows me to see more of the world, or less of it."

— Mobeen Hakeem

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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. That is all."

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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"For you, a thousand times over."

— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner.

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"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life."

— Walt Whitman

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is your name really sapphira? neat. that's my sister's name. I've never heard of anyone else with that name.

peace.

No, but i use it as my pen name. It's synonymous to my real name though.