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pastel 34444 - #eddbd7

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gathering flowers for a funeral

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♡ twitter

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Rainer Maria Rike, tr. by Edward Snow, from One of the Old Women; “New Poems, 1908,”

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“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important thing; what I cannot forget is that there was a time when they were at once more banal and more essential than that. When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books.”

— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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by Xenie Zasetskaya

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you did it!

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ppl who aren’t afraid to display gender nonconformity in dress, speech or action in public places make me feel so safe and normal and ok i love feminine men and masculine women and androgynous ppl who don’t tone themselves down or make themselves more palatable and understandable to an obsessively gendered + gendering society and i hope to one day truly live that kind of life

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James Sant, Courage, Anxiety and Despair- Watching the Battle

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“Love me the way I am or leave me alone.”

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after battle trip to a galatic corner store ★

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“If that’s your decision, then it’s fine. But in that case, I’ll be the one waiting this time. When Mom died, when I got target panic, it was because you waited for me that I was able to come back. So this time, it’s my turn.I’ll wait.”

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…and her voice, like that of princesses in fairy tales, breathes roses.

Maurice Maeterlinck, from Complete Poems & Plays; “Princess Maleine,” (via violentwavesofemotion)