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The feeling of abandonment overwhelmed me as I realised that no one had waited, or cared where I was.

Emily Williams, Letters to Eloise

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People underestimate the power of nostalgia. It is truly one of the greatest human weaknesses. Second only to the neck.

- Dwight K. Schrute

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We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

- Dead Poets Society.

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The self is not so weightless

Nor whole and unbroken

Remember the pact of our youth

Achilles Come Down

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Blue is therefore most suitable as the colour of interior life - William H. Gass

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I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

— Franz Kafka (b. 3 July 1883)

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It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live after.

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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Nobody else gets to decide your sexuality. Only you know how you feel, don't get influenced by people who show no support and try to put a myriad of doubts in front of you. Nobody explores themselves for grabbing attention, we do it for ourselves. Be proud of yourself, always.

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Icarus should have waited for nightfall,

the moon would have never let him go.

Nina Mouawad, Blue Sun: A poetry collection

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My to-do list:

1. Simping over Todoroki.

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Between life and death there is a library,’ she said. ‘And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets.

The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

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Why be depressed when you can reread your most cherished novel?

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Is there no way out of the mind?

Sylvia Plath

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Is there no way out of the mind?

- Sylvia Plath

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“—and I am not much better yet; still insane either from happiness or misery.”

— Jane Austen, Emma